2015 Winter web - The New Jersey Watercolor Society

Artists’
Roberta Carter Clark
Winter 2015
Vol. 19, No. 1
Page 2 in
memoriam:
Roberta
Carter Clark
Page 2-3 Members in the News
Page 3
Associate Members in the News
Meet the Membership:
Robert
Sakson
Page 4 2014 Open Juried Show
Page 5
John
Salminen
Page 5-6 Remembering
Henry Gasser
Page 6 Calendar of Events
Winter 2015
New Jersey Water Color Society www.njwcs.org
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
Please take advantage this snowy winter in NJ, stay safe and warm inside and
paint your next masterpiece for our 73rd Annual Open Juried Exhibition. Our
venue will be The Middletown Arts Center, Middletown, NJ. The exhibition will
run from September 28th through Sunday, November 1st 2015. Once again our
reception will take place on closing day and participating artists will be able to
take their paintings home following the reception.
We begin 2015 with some very significant changes in the way things have
been done in the past for NJWCS. Last year the Membership voted to accept
digital entries for our Annual Open Juried selection process. The prospectus
and additional information will be available in the spring. Our 73rd Annual Open
Exhibition will allow our entering artists to enter up to two images per artist, but
only one entry may be juried into the exhibit.
The adoption of digital image entries offered another option for New Jersey
Water Color Society in the selection process for paintings in our Annual Open
Juried Exhibition. As you are aware our Jury of Selection has been a Jury of
our Elected Members voted for by our Elected Membership. The selection of
paintings for the show made from digital entries allows us to select a Juror of
Selection from anywhere in the country. The Board has approved the appointment of an out-of-state impartial Juror of Selection for our 73rd Annual Open
Juried Exhibition. I am pleased to announce that John Salminen AWS df, NWS
will be our sole Juror of Selection in 2015. John creates beautiful representational as well as abstract works of art. Please read more about John in this
newsletter.
Our awards judging process will remain as in the past. Two AWS/NWS judges
will award the paintings from the original, factual paintings after they are received. Thanks to our Awards Chair Pat Morgan and our generous donors we
anticipate over $6,000 in all cash awards.
We are aware that many issues may arise with these new concepts. We are
here to help you and several board members will be available to answer questions or help out in any way we can. We also have added a learning center to
our web site where you can find instructions and free programs to format your
images. Be sure to visit the site often at www.njwcs.org .
“We are at the cusp of a change in our industry when it comes to the process
of jurying entries for the major exhibitions. The world is going digital”! This
was a quote from the President of the Philadelphia Water Color Society in a
2006 newsletter. That was nine years ago. Change for NJWCS was only a
matter of time.
I hope you had a wonderful holiday season and wish you a safe, healthy, and
successful 2015.
Jinnie May
Elected Members in the News:
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Board policy for Member News is no more than 3 items per issue. Please submit in narrative form, and submit only once per
newsletter cycle. The Editor reserves the right to edit submissions.
Congratulations to all the NJWCS artists who had paintings selected for the American Watercolor Society's 148th Annual International Exhibition- April 6-25, 2015 at the Salmagundi Club,
NYC; PAT DEWS AWS, JINNIE MAY, ROBERT NARDOLILLO,
JOEL POPADICS AWS, LOIS SANDERS and STEVE ZAZENSKI
AWS* Extra Congrats to Steve who became a Signature Member of
AWS with this year's entry.
JUDY BALLANCE has a drawing in the book titled, “Art Journey:
Portraits & Figures” published by Northlight. The book was released in December 2014 and can be purchased at Northlightshops.com or Amazon.com
LISA BUDD was honored to receive the Cotswold Industries
Award in Garden State Watercolor Society's Exhibition,
the Karl & Helen Burger Award in Audubon Artists Inc. Annual
Exhibition, and the Loring Coleman Award in Allied
Artists of America Annual Exhibition.
MARYANN BURTON received the Jack Richeson Award in the
North East Watercolor Society’s International Open Exhibition
and attained Signature Membership status. She was awarded the
Cynthia and Jerome Goodgal Memorial Award in the Catharine
Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, Inc 118th Annual Open Juried Exhibition at The National Arts Club, and was juried in to the Grand
National Exhibition of the American Artists Professional
League and the Hudson Valley Art Association's 82nd Annual
Juried Exhibition at the Salmagundi Club.
MARGARET CRAWFORD will be opening, with four other artists,
a co-op gallery called Le Petite Gallerie in Bluffton, South Carolina this February.
JOHN CURCH‘S watercolor, Washday in Italy, took First place
and Best in Show in the Union County Senior Art Show in June. It
went on to compete in the New Jersey Senior State Show taking
Third Place at Meadow Lakes in East Windsor.
MARK DE MOS received the Winsor Newton Materials Award at
the Allied Artists of America Open Juried Exhibition at the Salmagundi Club in
NESS GRAINGER was juried into the 125th Anniversary
Exhibition of The National Association of Women Artists
Exhibition at The Art Gallery of the Armory in West Palm
Beach, Fl.
KATHERINE GRAY had a painting accepted in the Adirondacks National Exhibition of American Watercolors at View
in Old Forge, NY — August-October , and the North East
Watercolor Society's 2014 Annual International Open Juried
Exhibition in Kent, Connecticut in October.
KEN C. HAMILTON was honored to be invited to show several paintings at the 2014/2015 China Qingdao International
Watercolor Exhibition and very delighted to have the Qingdao Museum of Art purchase the painting, Forum of Nerva
for their permanent collection!
THERESA TROISE HEIDEL became a signature member
of the Audubon Artists, Inc. after her watercolor "Atlantic
Blue" was included in their 72nd annual juried exhibition at
the Salmagundi Club, NYC in October.
JINNIE MAY won the John Young-Hunter Memorial Award
at the 100th Anniversary International Exhibit of The Allied
Artists of America at the Salmagundi Club this November. With this entry she was accepted as an Elected Member in the AAA's water media category. This past fall she
won the Winsor-Newton Award from the North East Watercolor Society's International Exhibition. Jinnie is having a
solo show of her watercolors in The Starlight Gallery at
the Mayo Performing Arts Center January 16-March 4, 2015.
CHARLES MCVICKER won the Mark Sanstrom Gold Medal
award at the National Painters in Casein and Acrylic exhibit
at the Salmagundi Club this summer.
DIANA MARTA’S watercolor Bottom Feeders was chosen
for the inaugural exhibit of the new gallery at Community
College of Baltimore County, Catonsville, MD, where she is
on the adjunct faculty in September after it had been shown
at the Ron Cubbison Memorial Exhibit Towson University,
Md , Sept 2012. The chosen first of Mr. Cubbison's former
students to receive a $7,000 travel award, which she used
to visit the arts scene in Los Angeles plus a special exhibit.
In Memoriam: ROBERTA CARTER CLARK, 90, of Little Silver, NJ, passed away on September 26, 2014.
President of NJWCS 1979-81, member since 1975, actively supported the society in many
ways, for the last decade plus in charge of organizing and printing the Juried Show Catalog.
She was an elected member of the American Watercolor Society, Allied Artists of America, Garden State Watercolor Society, Pennsylvania Watercolor Society, Midwest Watercolor Society, exhibited with the National Academy and Rockport Art Association and
appeared in several Who’s Who editions. Roberta was a nationally known and respected
painter of the figure, with her own books How to Paint Living Portraits, (1990, North Light
Books), and Painting Vibrant Children's Portraits (1993, NLB) have become standards
also released videos. Roberta was featured in the American Artist Magazine (1993), Artist
Magazine (1994) and Watercolor Magic (1995) plus included in several Splash books, and
books by other renowned watercolorists (Gerald Brommer and Marilyn
Phyllis Hughey et al). Her aim was to capture “the grace
and vulnerability of women, sparkle of children and stalwart quality of men.” Her style was to work wet, fast and
loose in order to create clean, transparent, juicy washes
to enhance quality of her work. She was a treasure and
will leave a great hole in our organization and our hearts.
To see a video demo (EWCC)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKERT-Ul2u8
ELECTED MEMBERS NEWS CONTINUED.
ROBERTA OLIVER is having a solo show of her watercolors
now through February at the High Mountain Presbyterian
Church in Franklin Lakes.
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LOIS SANDERS was awarded the Cecilia Cardman Memorial
at the Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club's 118th Annual
Open Juried Exhibition, National Arts Club, NYC, in December. She was awarded the Ampersand Art Supply Award at
the North East Watercolor Society's 38th Annual International Exhibition, Kent, CT in October, with this third acceptance
Lois earned Signature Membership.
Meet the Membership
Robert Sakson, AWS, df
excerpted from Relying on the Tried and
True, Watercolor Magazine Summer 2007,
Stephen Doherty
Robert Sakson has been at the
top of his craft for a half a century. His background included
sign painting and solid understanding of design. He is a recipient
of the prestigious Dolphin Fellowship from the American Watercolor Society for those who have accumulated a number of
points (awards) in their annual juried shows and a signature
member of the Pastel Society of America as well as NJWCS and
GSWS. Bob is a realistic artist, but the secret to his work is a firm
abstract foundation.
His work is an extenuation of a long tradition that inspired him,
the New Hope School of Impressionist Painting, artists like Philip
Garber, Harry Leith-Ross, John Folinsbee, William Smith and
Nelson Shanks who regularly exhibited at the Phillips’ Mill annual
show in New Hope and where he followed their work since the
1950’s. He is inspired by the same landscape, doing small plein
air watercolors and sketches and taking reference photos and
can work weeks gestating as the idea comes together and putting
the final sketch on his full sheet, which he attaches to a board
and works on a table in his studio. In this way he can work days
or even weeks to create the final painting.
He is also inspired by Andrew Wyeth saying “I am inspired to
respond to what I see and record it with fidelity and expression.”
He prefers 140# Arches rough that is soaked and tapes to have
a flat surface, and maximum of control. He follows the traditional
methods of laying soft wet and wet of sky and light values, then
gradually building up darker layers using a limited palette of colors.
He doesn’t rush the process and takes his time to get the most
out of the subject. He has taught across the state inspiring the
next generation of watercolorists.
Associate Members News
Please send in your news of getting into juried shows, awards, shows and any firsts,
first exhibit, first juried show, first group show, first one person show…
LINDA ARNOLD has her painting "Solar Energy " included
in Chris Unwin’s new book Artistic Touch 6. She had a
painting juried into the Garden State Watercolor Society
Open Juried Show at the Capital Health Center in Pennington, NJ.
MEDY BOZKURTIAN will have solo exhibitions of watercolors and oils at the Madison Avenue Gallery of the Morristown Memorial Hospital, January 18 - February 28 and the
Ridgewood Library March 1 - 31. Medy was juried into the
North East Watercolor Society’s International Show and
the American Artists Professional League NY Grand National Exhibition at the Salmagundi Club, NYC.
JAMES FIORENTINO had a solo show featuring his Wildlife
Art at Studio 7 Fine Art Gallery, 5 Morristown Road, Bernardsville, NJ in January. He received a feature article on
the Front Page of the Newark Star Ledger on January 1st.
The article covered the current show and a discussion of his
career in wildlife and sports illustration.
JUDI GILDEN has two paintings, October Gold and Harvest
Light featured in the Creative Art Press watercolor book
series, The Artist's Touch, edited by Chris Unwin
(published 2014). “Harvest High” was juried into the Salmagundi Club’s 36th Annual Juried Non-Member Show, 5th
Avenue, NYC. The. AtlantiCare Healing Arts Program purchased “Afternoon Delight” for the AtlantiCare Urgent Care
Center, Egg Harbor Township, NJ. .
ART KLEIN‘s full sheet abstract watercolor, “Untitled II” was
juried into the 31st Annual Ellarslie Open Show, (juror-Kelly
Baum, Curator at the Princeton University Art Museum)
sponsored by the Trenton Museum Society at the Trenton
City Museum at Ellarslie in the summer. Only 104 of over
400 works were accepted for the show, my first painting ever accepted into a museum show!
JANE BRENNAN KOECK is having a solo exhibition of her
artwork for the month of December at the Spring Street Art
Center 145 Spring St. Newton, NJ.
JANIS MCCRACKEN had solo shows of her watercolors,
acrylics, and mixed media work at the Summit Library
Parkersburg Arts Center in Parkersburg, WV in August and
September.
ISABELLA PIZZANO painting Zephyr was juried into the
Annual 118th Open Exhibition at the Catharine Lorillard
Wolfe Art Club, NYC, Dec. 2014 and achieved Signature
Status. She will be exhibiting in a prestigious gallery in Lisbon, Portugal, March, 2015, chosen for an award: Premio
Botticelli at the Casa Dante Florence, Italy, March 2015.
Mel Stabin Watercolor Workshop
May 4-7, 2015
$ 1075. single and $900. double
Sponsored by Carroll Villa Hotel, Cape May, NJ
Contact -Marie Natale at 609-214-9905
e-mail - [email protected]
Includes Hotel 4 nights, Breakfast and lunch, workshop, parking, meet and greet
reception on May 3rd (Wine and light Snacks) Food provided by the renowned Mad
Batter Restaurant (Part of the Hotel)
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NJWCS 2014 Open Juried Show-Middletown Art Center
Mark de Mos
Robert Nardolillo
Philip Smallwood
James Toogood
Marie Natale
Richard William Haynes
Jinnie May
Eileen Georgas
Elizabeth Oberman
Donna Roettger
Michael Scherfen
Tim Gaydos
Edward Rabinowitz Acadia
Judy Ballance
John Wolff
Thomas Wilczewski
Nora Winn
Lisa Budd
Cecily Byk
Marcia Rieff
Michalyn Tarantino
Joan McKinney
Mark de Mos
Robert Nardolillo
Philip Smallwood
James Toogood
Elizabeth Ober-
John Wolff
Marie Natale
Donna Roettger
Nora Winn
Madison Square Park
Harbor Lights
Bold at Heart
Cape May in Winter
Happy Hour Reflections
Summertime Blues
Providence 394
Hats
The Taste of Summer
Red Barn
The Cavern Guide
Fish House Road II
Green Waters
It’s Nice to Share
Babs
Watch Hill Harbor
Togar
Evening Hours
Memento
Downtown Coxsackie
Gipetto’s Other Kids
Non-Such Swaying Flowers
Richard William
Michael Scherfen
Cecily Byk
Tim Gaydos
Marcia Rieff
The Silver Medal of Honor
The NJWCS Mary S. Lawrence Founder’s Award
The Nummie Warga Memorial Award
The Contessa Bonardi Award
The Avery and Nina Johnson Award
The Nicholas A. Reale Memorial Award
The Virginia Fleugel Memorial Award
The Andrew T. Kiszonak Memorial Award
The Roberta Carter Clark Memorial Award
The President’s Award
The Norman Web Memorial Award
The Pearl Worob Memorial Award
The John C. Bermingham Award
Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club Award
The Ridgewood Art Institute Award
The Pat Dews Award
The Eiko Kahn Award
The Sonja Weir Award
The Middletown Arts Center Award
The NJWCS Award for an Associate Member
The Kim Moonwater Morello Memorial Award
The Saker Shoprites, Inc
Jinnie May presented
by Sandra Jones
Eileen Georgas
Edward Rabinowitz
Michalyn Tarantino
Judy Ballance
Joan McKinney
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JOHN SALMINEN,AWS
b. Jan. 18, 1945
By Art Klein
So you’ve never heard of this watercolor painter, right? Well, do yourself a favor and
take a look at his website: www.johnsalminen.com
…and I think you will be “blown away” as I was a few weeks ago when I first found out
about him. (If you ARE familiar with him, read on anyway!) He is a member of the American Watercolor Society, the National Watercolor Society, and has won more than 230
awards in national and international exhibitions. You can read his “bio” on the website,
so I won’t repeat that here. What I want to emphasize are Mr. Salminen’s key thoughts
about painting with watercolor.
I found a video on YouTube in which Mr. Salminen states that he “spends more time
dealing with value than anything else.” With that in mind, I sent him an E-Mail and said I
wanted to spend a few minutes talking on the phone in order to expand on that thought
for this article. That same day, Mr. Salminen graciously responded to my message and
called me. He told me that he had just completed a workshop in Succasunna, NJ in October 2014 and suggested I get some feedback from Nina Harlan, who had been the
organizer of the 4-day workshop. I followed up with Nina, and she commented that “John spoke of the importance
of accuracy in drawing when attempting to create a believable illusion of reality….Using correct values is more important than color; a good painting will have values that range from 1 through 9 plus black.”
Mr. Salminen also confirmed that in the workshop, VALUE was the dominant theme. He mentioned two
thoughts on value:
1) The intent of value is to strengthen the composition and it can also add atmosphere and a sense of drama.
2) Varied values allow the artist to better capture time and place.
John added that “we tend to be a little timid with the use of dark values; we use middle values more than anything
else… Value represents shadow and light and that’s how we perceive the world.”
My brief conversation ended when John said “The viewer’s eye will always seek
the white,” and “Value does the work and color takes the credit!” Lastly, John recommended an old book by Ted Kautzky entitled “Painting Trees & Landscapes in Watercolor.” He said the book talks about the importance of the variation in value between
the background, middle ground, and foreground. (I have not yet read this book, but I
will look for it at my local library.)
In closing, thanks again to Mr. Salminen for spending a few minutes on the phone
with me, and I encourage everyone interested in watercolor painting to take a look at
John’s website, and check out his videos on YouTube as well. You’ll be glad you did.
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Remembering NJWCS Member Henry Martin Gasser, American (1909 - 1981)
Painter, lecturer, teacher, illustrator and author, Henry Gasser was born in Newark, New Jersey on Oct. 31,1909.
He lived, studied and worked in New Jersey for his entire life. A Master at watercolor and oil his work consisted of,
in his own words, "everyday subjects that are available to most of us-street scenes, back yards, trees, old houses,
etc I looked for them in front of houses, in backyards, public parks, and elsewhere". He also painted numerous
harbor and fishing village scenes. His work demonstrated a sense of place and feeling that most could identify
with. He often "exhausted a subject" which becomes evident when viewing the body of his work for many of his
paintings are just slight variations of previously completed compositions. His Paintings also contain a great deal of
what he called "solitary silence" created by chosen subject matter such as a "Coming Storm", "Night in the Park",
"Shadows"... He felt that Design was very important and meant the difference
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between a mediocre work and a truly professional one. It is here
where Gasser excelled, his work demonstrates a sense of composition that gained wide spread appreciation for his work.
He got his background in art studying at the Newark School of Fine
and Industrial Art and the Grand Central School of Art. This was
followed by study at the Art Students League of New York in the
classes of Robert Bracman. He later studied privately under John R.
Grabach. He was inspired by socially mined realist painters like continued on John Sloan and George Luks. He is represented in over
fifty museum collections and numerous important private ones as
well. Among the awards that Henry Gasser has received are the Hallgarten Prize at the National Academy, the Zabriskie, Osborne, and
Obrig prizes at the American Watercolor Society, the Philadelphia
watercolor club prize, the Allied Artists Gold Medal at Oakland, California and many others. He was a member of the National Academy of Design, the American Watercolor Society, the Royal Society of Art (Great Britain), the Salmagundi Club, the Philadelphia,
Baltimore and Washington Watercolor Clubs and the New Jersey Watercolor Society. He was a life member of the National Arts
Club, Grand Central Art Galleries and the Art Students League
and others. He served as Director of the Newark School of Fine
and Industrial Art from 1946-54 then continued lecturing and
demonstrating for most of the remainder of his life. He also wrote numerous books on painting. He died in Orange, NJ in 1981.
2015 Calendar of Events
September 28th - November 1st
73rd Annual NJWCS Open Juried Exhibition
Middletown Arts Center, Middletown , NJ
November, 2015
Annual Associates’ Show
Bernardsville Library, Bernardsville, NJ .
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