Michele Byrne:

"THRILLED to find out that I won an Award of Excellence at the Oil Painters of America Western Exhibit!!

Thank you OPA and thank you Jeremy Goodding for the award and your thoughts about my piece.

Congratulations to all the award winners at the Mary R. Koch Arts Center in Wichita, Kansas!"

Allen Brockbank
Best of Show, PAPNM 2020 SFPAF
2020 Santa Fe Plein Air Fiesta

PAPNM Member, Allen Brockbank, has been in the news this year: 

This past Feb, he was listed in the Southwest Art Magazine as an "Artist to Watch" :

https://www.southwestart.com/articles-interviews/emerging-artists/artists-to-watch-allen-b-brockbank

And now,  the November 2021 issue of Plein Air Magazine has listed him as one of "10 Artists to Collect Now".

Visit his website:

https://www.allenbbrockbank.com/

Plein Air Division

Combined Studio/Plein Air Division

Congratulations to the PAPNM members, Beth Winfield and Michele Byrne for their awards in this prestigious organization.

Oil Painters of America 2021 "Spirit of Santa Fe" Wet Paint Competition Plein Air Division

https://www.oilpaintersofamerica.com/awardees.cfm?year=2021#wetpaint#wetpaint (scroll down)

https://www.oilpaintersofamerica.com/events/exhibitions/2021/convention/index.cfm

                Prismatic Aura

Katherine:

"I received MASTER PASTELIST from the Pastel Society of America after winning an award in the 2021 Enduring Brillance Exhibit. This beautiful exhibit can be seen at https://www.pastelsocietyofamerica.org. "Prismatic Aura" is shown above. Thank you to the juror of awards, Emily A. Beeny, PhD, Curator in Charge of European Paintings, Fine Arts Museum of San Franscisco and thank you to everyone who works so hard to make the show possible. Who would have ever thought? I am so proud to join many pastelists whom I admire in this distinction."

https://americanwomenartists.org/upcoming-2022-signature-members/

"So many wonderful things happening! I just got my letter notifying me that I am advancing to the signature level of American Women Artists for 2022! Honored all to bits!!"

And from Peggy Immel:  

"It's always wonderful to receive an email with great news, so a big thank you to Executive Director Sandra Harris and the American Women Artists for the congratulatory note letting me know that I'd been granted Signature status. I'm psyched!"

Congratulations to Michele for an Award of Excellence at the OPA Convention in Santa Fe:

"I was VERY honored to win an award of excellence at the wet paint Exhibit. We painted at El Rancho de las Golondrinas one afternoon, and I painted the artist Nugzari Novikoff from Tbilisa, Georgia while he was hard at work."

PAINTING HISTORY- 16” x 12” - cobra oil paint
"What drew me to paint this piece was the strong directional shapes of the shadows in the courtyard.
He just happened to be standing in the most dramatic shadow triangle.
Initially I didn’t think I would paint it - because he was in the way. But since I knew he wasn’t going to move, I decided to work with the composition as it looked."

What: 7 Visions of the West: landscape paintings by members of the Bettina Steinke Studio Group Where: Abiquiú Inn 21120 US 84, Abiquiú
When: Through Sept. 30. An opening reception with the artists will be held 4:30 to about 6 p.m., July 29
Note: Artists from the group will be painting on location at various times during the duration on the exhibit. Their next scheduled date for location painting is July 24

See whole Rio Grande Sun article: RioGrandeSunBettinaSteinke .pdf

Some PAPNM Participating Members: Marcia Williams, Cecilia Robertson, Nancy Davis, Lee MacLeod, Paula Devereaux. The group was formed by Bill Gallen, PAPNM Master Signature Artist.

Ten artists based in New Mexico talk about their work: 

Click here (scroll down)

Congratulations to the PAPNM Members in the article.

Connie Falk

Krysteen Waszak

Richard Prather

Carla Forrest

Read about the Los Alamos Library Step Up Gallery with the Exhibits' Coordinator, Diane Stoffel-Ryan, PAPNM member,  here (name misspelled in article).

From Carole (PAPNM Vice President):

"I am thrilled to hear that I was Awarded First Place for my painting Classic! in the Monterey Bay Plein Air Painters Association's Signature Artists Show last night. A big thank you to Paul Kratter for this honor and to my friends on the west coast that have been so supportive."