Margaret Jamison awards photographer Paul Grecian the Founders Award for his Bucks County nature photography.
Peddler’s Village has announced the winners of the 26th Annual Fine Arts and Contemporary Crafts Show. More than 35 juried artists from the region displayed and sold works throughout the Village while competing for $5,000 in cash prizes.
This year’s Founder’s Award was presented to photographer Paul Grecian of Quakertown, PA. This annual award is for work chosen for purchase by Peddler’s Village to be added to the Jamison Family’s permanent collection. Grecian shoots nature photography in Bucks County and the East Coast. The artwork selected was Grecian’s photograph of red cardinals in Bucks County, the first photograph ever selected for the show’s Founder’s Award.
Paulette Hanson Visceglia received First Place for her silk painting in the Fine Arts category
The show winners by category are as follows:
Fine Art category:
First Place Best of Show: Paulette Hanson Visceglia, silk painting, Wilmington, DE.
Second Place: James Redding, original acylics & watercolors on canvas and paper, limited edition lithos & giclees, Newtown PA.
Third Place: Joanne Krasnansky, watercolors and limited edition prints of Bucks County, Holland, PA.
Honorable Mention: John Mertz, oil paintings, Pipersville, PA.; Catherine Colsher, original copperplate etchings & paintings, Sinking Spring, PA: Lee Muslin, mixed media 2D art combining acrylic paint, collage, digital art & photo montage, Lansdale, PA.
John Armstrong placed First in Contemporary Crafts for his handmade clay pieces.
First Place Best of Show: John Armstrong, handmade clay pieces, pit-fired and electric-kilned, Willow Grove, PA
Second Place: Beth Taylor, mixed media jewelry created using recycled materials & found objects sterling silver & gem stones, Bethlehem, PA.
Third Place Tie: Jungwhon Joo, fine enamel art jewelry, cloisonné and champlevé, Philadelphia, PA
Honorable Mentions: Joan Curtis, mixed media collographs, montypes, collages & handpainted floorcloths, Jim Fazio, artistic wood turnings, hollow forms & bowls, Center Valley, PA; Barbara Kurland & Bill Underwood, color-turned hardwood bowls with food safe finishes, Denville, NJ
Alex Pieterson received First Place Best of Show in the photography category.
Photography category:
First Place Best of Show: Alex Pieterson, photography,
Second Place: Paul Grecian, nature photography, Quakertown, PA.
Third Place: Chris Hill, Bucks County photography, Pipersville, PA
Honorable Mentions: Bill Booz, fine art photography, Voorhees, NJ; Ruth Taylor, Bucks County scenic photography, Doylestown, PA; Kiara Wiebel, digital photography and photo manipulation, Green Lane, PA.
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Congratulations to the winners and all who made it possible.