Watercolor International IV - Thessaloniki, Greece

Active professionally for more than 20 years, Donna Zagotta is an internationally recognized painter, teacher, and juror. She is a signature member of the American Watercolor Society and the National Watercolor Society.  Her paintings have evolved from an early emphasis on traditional watercolor techniques and traditionally influenced realism to an unconventional use of the watercolor medium and the exploration of that area that lies between realism and abstraction.  Donna has a passion for art history with a special interest in Modernism and finds inspiration in the work of Edouard Vuillard, Henri Matisse, and Richard Diebenkorn, master painters who were more focused on expressing color and spatial ideas than on rendering the particulars of subject matter. Walk with you

Jansen Chow is a signature member of American Watercolor Society (AWS) and National Watercolor Society (NWS).  He won an art scholarship and studied in The Art Students League of New York, New York from 1994-1996 and he also a student of Mario Cooper, a great America Watercolor Master.  Jansen has held 16 solo art exhibitions and took part in more than 300 national and international watercolor exhibitions since 1992.  He has won more than 60 national & International awards in oil, watercolor, photography & etching since 1988 including receiving 1st place 9 times in watercolor competitions in the USA, Canada, Turkey & Malaysia. Recently he is IWS Malaysia Country Head,   FabrianoInAcquarello Malaysia Country Leader and the curator of “1st Malaysia International Watercolor Biennale 2018”.

‘Capturing the extraordinary light that transforms a subject almost to abstraction is a main objective in creating my watercolors'-says International award winning watercolorist Linda Daly Baker, aws-df, nws.  As a full-time professional artist, she has created originals, reproduced a line of giclees’ and has two instructional videos available through Creative Catalyst Productions. Along with her paintings, she has taught workshops world-wide and is a sought after juror. Her paintings appear in many publications including Masters of Watercolor by Konstantin Sterkhov and the North Light Splash series.  Her honors include the Shenzhen Biennials, Qindao Invitational, American Watercolor Society, National Watercolor Society, the San Diego International, and most recently earned her Dolphin Fellow in the prestigious American Watercolor Society. Soho shadows

Andy Evansen’s interest in art started in childhood, as he can’t recall a time when he wasn’t drawing. He began painting watercolors in the mid 1990s as a change of pace from his career as a medical illustrator. Choosing a ‘style’ was not difficult, as Andy was always inspired by the watercolor paintings of British artists Trevor Chamberlain, David Curtis, Ed Seago and John Yardley, among others. He found himself attempting to capture the landscape with the same economy of brushstroke, taking advantage of the luminosity of watercolors done in just a few washes. In addition, he was impressed with the way those artists seemed to capture everyday scenes in such a way that revealed a hidden beauty, subjects that many would simply pass by. His work gained recognition after winning an international watercolor competition through American Artist magazine, appearing on their cover in 2005. He’s been featured in numerous other publications since, and has become a sought-after workshop in

Originally from New York, Laurie now lives in West Virginia.   She has been painting watercolors for the last 19 years.    Laurie continues to experiment with new techniques in watercolor and watercolor/acrylic.    She has exhibited her work in the U.S., Japan, Turkey, Greece, Canada and China.   Currently, she travels and teaches workshops across the United States.   Her works focus on cityscapes, portraits and still life.  She has been published in Watercolor Artist Magazine several times and last year her work earned the High Winds Medal Award at the 150th anniversary of the American Watercolor Society Exhibition.

He graduated from: - Art Studio - Art College of Further - Moscow State Academy of Fine Arts (. Former Stroganov). Member of Union of Artists of Russia - is a member of the International Federation of watercolors.  The representative of the IWS (International Watercolor Society) in Russia; Major recent exhibitions: International Festival «La Prima» in Moscow, Russia - 2012; International Festival of watercolor in Turkey - 2013; Biennial watercolors in China - 2013; Biennial watercolors in St. Petersburg, Russia - 2013; Biennial watercolors in France - 2014; Biennial watercolors vTaylande -2015; Biennale of watercolor in Mexico -2015; Biennial watercolors in Fabriano, Italy - 2015; Biennial watercolors in Izmir, Turkey - 2015; Biennial watercolors in Taiwan -2015; Biennial watercolors in Indonesia - 2015; Biennial watercolors in Albania - 2015; Biennial watercolors in India - 2015; Venice International Art Exhibition, Italy -2015; Biennial

Robert J. O’Brien is a full time award winning artist and popular local, national and international workshop instructor.  He is a signature member of the American, National and New England Watercolor Societies, among others.   He recently received the Mary Bryan Memorial Award at the 68th Academic Artists National Exhibition in Vernon, Connecticut and the Joseph Santoro Memorial Award at the New England Watercolor Society’s 2018 Juried Signature Members Show in Boston. In 2017 he won the Combined Donors Award 1 at the 97th International Exhibition of the National Watercolor Society in San Pedro CA. He also won the Gurdon and Mildred Evans Memorial Award at the 36th Adirondacks National Exhibition of American Watercolors. He was accepted into the 147th, 148th, 149th, 150th and in 2018, the 151stth International Exhibition of the American Watercolor Society, held at the Salmagundi Club in New York, NY. Robert was a co-Juror of Awards for this years 151st Internati