ARTIST STATEMENT

“Instructions for living a life:
Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.
-Mary Oliver
We are more divorced from the natural world than at any time in our species’ history; the average American spends 93% of their time indoors. I think we need the tonic of wildness; that it feeds something important in us. 
I make paintings of the wilderness and in cities and little towns before dawn that bring to life that awe-filled mystery of being alive on this planet.

 

 

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Jonathan Keeton studied painting and theater, and worked as a schoolteacher, a waiter and actor and then spent thirty years as a pioneer in digital visual effects for television, films and commercials, before returning to his first love, painting landscapes and nocturnes. He lives in Maçussa, Portugal with his wife Melinda Tidwell, three dogs and a cat.
Jonathan was a 2019 Fellow in the Clark Hulings Fund's Art Business Accelerator.

 

 

AWARDS

2017    First Prize, Rocky Mountain National Watermedia Exhibition
2017    Second Prize, Masterworks of New Mexico 
2016    Third Prize, New Mexico Watercolor Society, Fall Show
2016    Donna Abbott Award, Rocky Mountain National Watermedia Exhibition
2016    USA Watercolor Society Award, National Watercolor Society
2016    Best in Show, New Mexico Watercolor Society, Spring Show
2015    First Prize, New Mexico Watercolor Society, Spring Show
2012    First Prize, Marin Society of Artists 

EXHIBITIONS

2019    Group Show, Lovetts Gallery, Tulsa Ok
2019    Two Person Show  Town & Country, with Brad Reyes. Jobar Studio Santa Fe NM
2018    Group Show, Rocky Mountain National Watermedia Exhibition
2018    Group Show, Lovetts Gallery, Tulsa Ok
2017    Group Show, Masterworks of New Mexico (Award)
2017    Group Show, New Mexico Watercolor Society
2017    Group Show, Lovetts Gallery, Tulsa Ok
2017    Group Show, Rocky Mountain National Watermedia Exhibition (Award)
2016    Group Show, New Mexico Watercolor Society (Award)
2016    Group Show, Rocky Mountain National Watermedia Exhibition (Award)
2016    Group Show, National Watercolor Society (Award)
2015    Group Show, New Mexico Watercolor Society (Award)
2015    Group Show, Masterworks of New Mexico
2012    Group Show, Marin Society of Artists 
1984    Solo Show, Santa Cruz Arts Center

 

 

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