Awards & Honors

  • GRAND PRIZE
    EnPleinAir Texas. San Angelo, TX, 2019

  • ARTIST’S CHOICE
    Best of Chesapeake Bay, McBride Gallery, Annapolis MD 2018

  • BEST PAINTING BY A MARYLAND ARTIST
    Plein Air Easton, MD 2018
    Awarded by Jill Carver

  • FINE ART CONNOISSEUR AND SOUTH WEST ART MAGAZINE AWARD, "Artist for the New Century”
    Bennington Center for the Arts 2017

  • MUSEUM PURCHASE AWARD
    EnPleinAir Texas, 2016

  • CERTIFICATE OF EXCELLENCE
    International Portrait Competition, Portrait Society of America 2016

  • California Art Club 105th Gold Medal Exhibition
    Autry Museum of the American West, CA 2015

  • BEST IN SHOW
    Maui Plein Air Painting Invitational, Lahaina, Maui HI 2015
    Awarded by Jean Stern

  • BEST NOCTURNE AWARD
    Olmsted Plein Air Invitational, Atlanta, GA
    Awarded by David Brenneman, Anne Blair Brown and Steve Doherty

  • FIRST PLACE AWARD
    Artistic Excellence Art Competition, Southwest Art Magazine 2014

  • California Art Club 103rd Annual Gold Medal Exhibition
    Autry Museum of the American West, CA 2014

  • PLEIN AIR MAGAZINE AWARD OF EXCELLENCE
    21th Carmel Art Festival, Carmel CA, 2014
    Awarded by John Burton

  • BEST FIGURE IN THE LANDSCAPE
    October/November, Plein Air Salon 2013
    Awarded by Nancy Tankersley

  • BEST NOCTURNE AWARD
    June/July, Plein Air Salon 2013
    Awarded by Robin Knowlton

  • SECOND PLACE AWARD
    Plein Air Vermont, North Bennington VT 2013
    Awarded by Charles Reid

  • ARTIST’S CHOICE QUICK DRAW AWARD
    Plein Air Vermont, North Bennington VT 2013

  • THE PADMA GROUP AWARD
    Laguna Plein Air Invitational, Laguna Beach CA, 2013

  • TROIKA GALLERY AWARD : Best Painting by a Maryland Artist
    Plein Air Easton, Easton MD, 2013
    Awarded by Donald Demers

  • THIRD PLACE
    Mountain Maryland Plein Air, Cumberland MD, 2013
    Awarded by Albert Gury

  •  PLEIN AIR MAGAZINE AWARD OF EXCELLENCE AND JENNIFER HILL AWARD
    20th Carmel Art Festival, Carmel CA, 2013
    Awarded by Calvin Liang

  • COLLECTOR’S CHOICE AWARD
    Laguna Plein Air Invitational, Laguna Beach CA, 2012

  • GRAND PRIZE & ARTIST’S CHOICE AWARD
    Plein Air Easton, Easton MD 2012