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Jonathan Keeton
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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
