ROBERT O' BRIEN AWS, NWS

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 International Exhibition of the American Watercolor Society. Robert serves as the Scholarship Chair for the American Watercolor Society. He lives and paints in Weathersfield, Vermont and teaches workshops throughout the United States, and abroad.




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