Latest Exhibit Award Winners

“Waves of Creativity”

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First Place
Women Painters West Award:
Terry Romero Paul – Rippled Reflections

Second Place:
Heather Coen – Winter Shores

Third Place:
Elizabeth Tucker – California Living

Honorable Mention:
Marian Fortunati – Evening Song

Honorable Mention:
Ellen Levine – Pale Pink Rose

Honorable Mention:
Karen Morgenstern – Eucalyptus and Sky

Calendar

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Exhibitions

CURRENT EXHIBITION

“Brush With Nature’s Palette”

at MULBERRY ROW, in Sherman Oaks
February 1 – March 14, 2025

click here for Prospectus

IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for Entries and Fees:
Sunday, January 12, 2025
Acceptance Notification:
On/Around Monday, January 20, 2025
Delivery of Artwork to Shop:
Saturday, January 25, 2025, before 3 pm.
Opening Reception:
Saturday, February 1, 2025, 2-4 pm
Exhibit Closes:
Saturday, March 14, 2025
Pickup of Artwork:
Saturday, March 14, 2025 or Sunday, March 15, 2025

UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS FOR WPW MEMBERS:

Betsy Lueke Creative Arts Center in Burbank:
April 28 – May 23, 2025
Huntington Beach Art Space Summer Show:
mid June – mid August 2025

ReMastered – click here for the PDF
WPW artists recreated masterworks in posed photos. This is an amusing project that continues to bring joy during/after the time of COVID.

Art Share

April 19 Saturday – Carol Caley’s home in La Canada Flintridge.
Address to be given to the registered participants after deadline.
Deadline to register: March 20, 2025

Please bring an art piece or 2 to share with the attendees.
Location and other details will be sent to all members by email. Refreshments will be served.
Fee to attend: $5. Click here to go to the WPW Payments page.
Your payment is your RSVP.

YouTube Channel

See past meeting speaker presentations:
https://www.youtube.com/@womenpainterswest3769

WPW Monthly Members’ Meeting

Speaker: Frank Eber,
February 13 at 1:00 pm
Fine art atmospheric watercolor, oil, and other media. Artist. Juror. Teacher. Climber. World citizen.
Instagram: @frankeber

Speaker: Sonja Schenk

March 13 at 7 pm

https://sonjaschenk.com/

“My work explores the relationship between humankind and the environment. I’m interested in geography, anthropology, the future of humanity, and how these elements reflect on modern life. Much of my work is site-specific, and I like to research the area and come up with ideas for projects that, in my opinion, “fit” a place. I use a variety of media, mostly geared towards sculpture and painting, often in combination.” Sonja Schenk

Speaker: Theodosia Marchant

April 10 at 1 pm

https://www.theodosia-marchant.com/

“Born in Athens and now based in LA, expressive figurative artist Theodosia Marchant explores the nature of human existence in paintings as dramatic as Greek tragedies. Naked figures fill orgiastic canvases, overlapping and intertwining with each other, vines, and foliage, so it’s never clear where bodies begin or end. Faces are either hidden by manes of hair or have a mask-like quality. Marchant’s frequent use of horizontal composition reminds me of ancient drawings on walls and urns, as well as Picasso’s “Guernica.”“ Maggie Levine, Art Write Daily #14 Making Art in 2020

Speaker: Andrea Moni

May 8 at 1 pm (a short presentation)

https://www.andreamoni.com/

In 2015 Andrea was seriously burned in a traumatic accident and the impetus of her work shifted towards collaboration and healing.

Lately Andrea has been working on a series of large-scale canvas paintings using organic earth pigments, the natural flow of water and egg tempera (a very permanent technique utilizing non-toxic materials). She not only addresses issues of sustainability by carefully selecting and minimizing the use of raw materials, but more importantly, Moni collaborates with individuals who have also experienced trauma. Together at the ocean shore, they create movable tapestries that later become the backgrounds for the finished piece.

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For past meeting presentations click this link to go to the WPW YouTube Channel.

Art Book Group

ALL MEMBERS WELCOME!

When: Thursday, February 20
1:00 pm on Zoom “Girl Braiding Her Hair” by Marta Molnar
By the time Suzanne Valadon was 15 years old, she’s been a horse walker, a milliner’s assistant, a funeral wreath maker, and a circus acrobat (among other adventures). Then she became a sought-after model, painted by the greatest of the great. Her close friends included Degas, Renoir, and Toulouse-Lautrec. Paris celebrated her – until she decided to take up the brush herself at a time when art schools refused to accept female students.Read the story of Suzanne, a bastard from the tenements who fought to be seen for herself, and Ellie, a modern woman a century later, at a crossroads of her life, who pulls Suzanne into the light from the shadows of the past.

Future books
March 20 -” Oil and Marble: A Novel of Leonardo and Michelangelo” by Stephanie Storey
April 17 – “With Darkness Came Stars” by Audrey Flack

Bring names of books to consider. Books should be about art or artists, fiction or non-fiction. Also please have a little blurb about the book. Ahead of the meeting, any books you are considering should be sent to [email protected]