I forget to mention here that I was the proud recipient of three more American Art Awards in 2015.
I received these prizes in the categories Portrait of Someone Not Famous (third prize for Blossoming), Fantasy Landscape (fifth prize for Field of Dreams) and Floral Realism (third prize for Aglow, left) from an award body that receives entries from around 40 countries each year and which are judged by 25 top US galleries in a series of closely-sctutinsed point allocation. Needless to say, I was thrilled at the news that all of my entries had been recognised again and at all the additional exposure that these pieces received as a result.That was my second year of entering the awards – in 2014 I stuck my toe in the water with just one entry, The Yellow Window, and came away with third prize in the category Realism Still Life.