AQUAVENTURE 2025

exhibit march 3 - MAY 3, 2025
Artists' Attic · 401 W. Main Street, Lexington, KY 40507

Celebrating 47 years of awarding the talents of national artists


The Kentucky Watercolor Society is proud to sponsor AquaVenture 2025, an exhibition of paintings featuring water-based media by forty regional artists who primarily reside in Kentucky and surrounding states. The exhibition is being held at Lexington's Artists’ Attic from March 3 to May 3, 2025. This year’s show features 40 paintings selected by the juror, Mark Bird. Organizing the exhibition this year is Sherrie Graham-Greene.


 

Mark Bird, juror

Mark D. Bird has enjoyed a professional career of over forty years as a distinguished architectural illustrator and interior designer, working with many of the world’s foremost architects and designers. Additionally, Mr. Bird has produced fine-art commemorative print editions for public and private events, businesses, agencies and a multitude of other clientele. His works hang in private and corporate collections across the globe.

In 2017, he began the next chapter of his life as a fine artist, focusing on the art of architecture. He travels the world in search of inspiring, architecturally significant subjects and records his visions through his skillful style and inherent senses of emotion and interpretation.

Mark is a signature member of KWS and AWS.

 

For information about purchasing, please contact the Kentucky Watercolor Society at kentuckywatercolor@gmail.com.


 

FIRST PLACE

$500 CASH

Charles Jolly, Lexington, KY

“Well Worn”

20x26

$1400

 
 
 

SECOND PLACE

$400 CASH

Nanish Rajguru, Frankfort, KY

“Colorful Village”

18x24

$500

 

THIRD PLACE

$300 CASH

Benjamin Nay III, Shelbyville, KY

“Main Street Shelbyville”

16x20

$760

 
 
 

HONORABLE MENTION

$100 CASH

Gina Judy, Richmond, OH

“Ballet-Series VII: All Dressed ”

25.75" x 34"

$2400

honorable mention

$100 CASH

Pat Banks, Richmond, KY

“Armadillo And High Cotton”

40x32

$1650

 
 

 

Fall Colors

by George Gow
Louisville, KY
20×16

$300

Farmers Bank

by Karen Winn
Lexington, KY
18x22

$350

Cafe Du Monde

by Peggy Charmoli
Louisville, KY
16×20

NFS

Plein Air Tom Sawyer State Park

by Joyce Lupresto
Elizabethtown, KY
16×20

$400

Grandma’s Treasures

by Peggy Bishop
Nicholasville, KY
27×34

$5200

Collector’s Collection

by Keith Shebest
Amelia, OH
24×30

NFS

Château Royal de Collioure

by Marjorie Leinbach
Lexington, KY
14x18

NFS

Louisville Nature Center Plein Air

by Trudi Bellou
Louisville, KY
16×20

$150

High Falls

by Karen Hudson
Lexington, KY
11×14

NFS

Resting Bull

by Sherrie Graham-Greene
Lexington, KY
18×18

$475

Waiting For Asphalt

by Richard Harlow
Lexington, KY
16×20

$94

Wave Weaves

by Betsy Pollock
Louisville, KY
20×16

$450

Let It Snow

by Marjorie Leinbach
Lexington, KY
20×24

NFS

Iowa 80 Power Wagon

by Marian O’Shaughnessy
Lexington, KY
28×23

$995

August Garden #1

by Jane Kinser
Louisville, KY
18×22

$300

Aspens Alive

by Susan Christensen
Bardstown, KY
20×10

$200

Winter Sunrise

by Mohana Raje
Lexington, KY
12×16

$300

A Good Day

by Sixia Pulsifer
Lexington, KY
26×20

NFS

Mercado

by Joye Moon
Oshkosh, WI
31×23

$1000

Tumbling

by Hazel Reeves
Bend, OR
22×19

$300

Carnations

by Connor Tucker
Lexington, KY
18x22

$550

Harpswell Maine

by Julie Larger
Fort Mitchell, KY
21×21

$495

Lady Slipper and Rabbit

by Pat Banks
Richmond, KY
20×16

$475

Soul of the Streets

by Manish Rajguru
Frankfort, KY
16×13

$300

Holy Flying Fish

by Christine Alfery
Lac Du Flambeau, WI
34×44

$2200

Winter’s Stillness

by Nell Horman
Lexington, KY
16×20

$350

Master Craftsman

by Wyn Ericson
Middletown, KY
26×34

NFS

Sunset 369

by Jule McClellan
Henderson, KY
17.5×19.5

$400

Sunflowers

by James Keith
Taylorsville, KY
10×14

NFS

Heron Party

by Terri Friel
Louisville, KY
10.5X13.5

$700

Connect The Dots

by Jacques Camp
Louisville, KY
38×31

NFS

Carl

by Jude Gamel
Independence, KY
19.75×26.75

NFS

Looking Both Ways

by Charles Jolly
Lexington, KY
34×44

NFS

Leap of Faith

by Christine Alfery
Lac Du Flambeau, WI
34×44

$3400

Eagle Falls

by Karen Hudson
Lexington, KY
20×16

NFS

Placer County Sheriff

by Wyn Ericson
Middletown, KY
16×20

NFS