Best in Show
Traditional
Lori Mills
Lori Mills is a Malibu fine art oil painter and native Southern Californian. Lori has been hiking and painting the Santa Monica Area mountains and beaches since she was thirteen years old. Trained at the San Francisco Art Institute, Lori admires the creative impulses of Vincent Van Gogh. She admires the emotion and the bold use of brush stroke and color found in Van Gogh’s works. Lori’s works are highly personal and she uses a palette knife instead of a paintbrush almost exclusively in her plein air oil paintings.
Lori is inspired by her home on the ocean, the mining of deep emotion, and the constant re-birth and renewal of the colors of nature in Southern California.
If you are interested in seeing more of Lori’s work, please visit her website. Visit the 4th Annual Waterscapes Exhibition here.
Best in Show
Photography & Digital Art
Will Nourse
Will Nourse is a landscape photographer known for his ability to capture the drama and beauty of wild places through the use of color and texture. He has been an avid photographer for almost twenty years, and his work reflects a lifetime of hiking, backpacking, climbing, skiing and sailing, all of which have given him a deep appreciation for the wonders of the natural world.
His work has been featured at the Paula Estey Gallery in Newburyport, MA and the Davis Orton Gallery in Hudson, NY and a series of images were featured in the first print edition of All About Photo Magazine in June, 2018.
He has also been selected as a Featured Artist on the websites Light Space & Time, Fusion Art and Artsy Shark.
Most recently, his piece, The Morning Mist, was selected as part of the 2019 Emerging Artists Exhibition at the Cambridge Art Association. He has exhibited and won awards in juried shows at the Cambridge Art Association, the Newburyport Art Association (NAA), the Rockport Art Association, and various galleries across the country and his work has been featured in various print and online publications. He currently resides with his family in Amesbury, MA where he is planning his next trip to the wilderness.
His work can be found online at www.willnourse.photography and at Instagram.com/willnoursephotography. Visit the 4th Annual Waterscapes Art Exhibition here.
Best in Show
3-Dimensional Art
Amelia Johannsen
My ceramic art and sculptures celebrate the rivers and temperate rainforests of the Pacific Northwest where I grew up. They examine the beaches and rolling hills of the Mediterranean Coastline that I now call home. Nature’s grace has had a profound impact on me. The destructive conflicts between nature and humanity inspire me to communicate the importance of preserving our natural environment.
Clay provides the ideal playground for conceptual and inner exploration. The combination of textures, colors, glazing and firing methods allow me to connect with my art on a sensorial and meditative level. Ideas and feelings are shaped into pieces simultaneously reflecting my memories, interests and hopes.
To see more of Amelia’s work, please visit her website. Visit the 4th Annual Waterscapess Art Exhibition here.