Green Country Watercolor Society (GCWS) conducted an opening of its annual exhibition at the Tulsa Community College (TCC) Center for Creativity in June. Dozens of works by watercolor artists were presented at the show.
“GCWS has grown rapidly since its foundation in 2004,” the society’s website, www.greencountryws.com, states. “Our main purpose is to promote awareness and interest in water media painting with a focus on excellence in technique and materials, as well as encouraging and assisting water media painters to expand their skills and contacts in the arts.”
“Green Country Watercolor Society has 45 members,” said Jim Grisham, public relations representative for the organization. “We meet once a month at Arts@302, 302 S. Main St., in Broken Arrow, Okla.”
“Members of the GCWS participate in various workshops on watercolor painting,” he added. “A guest artist does a painting demo for the members every month.”
“Once a year, GCWS brings a national artist for a three-day workshop,” Grisham said.
“Most of the GCWS members are amateur artists,” he underlined.
Grisham became a member of the GCWS in 2020. He obtained a college degree in fine arts in the past, but he went into business. In 2016, Grisham started painting again. His remarkable “Cozumel Seascape,” expressing movement and emotion, was presented at the exhibit.
Nancy Harkins, an award-winning watercolor artist from Oklahoma, judged the show.
“Watercolor is a beautiful medium,” she said. “I am glad to see what the exhibition participants have done with the medium.”
“I encourage everybody to promote Watercolor Society,” the artists added.
Harkins gave the Best of the Show award to the landscape “Silence” by Posey Gaines. The landscape painting has brilliant and skillful brushwork, where form and matter merge into perfection.
Eight additional works were recognized at the exhibition, such as “Daisy Field” by Jerry Wade, “Lou” by Jeanette Hooks, “Rhodes” and “Kay Kay’s Chicken” by Terrin Neil, “Untamed Seacoast” by Amy Jenkins, and others. The winners received memorable gifts.
Several sponsors, including Aitkins Food Company, supported the annual GCWS event.
