RESUME
Jeanette Le Grue
Born
1952 Kodiak, Alaska
Education
Santa Rosa Junior College:
Santa Rosa, CA
Western Washington University: Bellingham, WA
Professional Art Workshops
Awards
2006 "Irvine Museum Award" Maui
Plein Air Invational, Lahaina, Maui, HI
2005 “Second Place” San Luis
Obispo Plein Air
2005 “Award of Excellence”
O.P.A. Fourteenth Annual National Juried Exhibition
2003 "Artists Choice Award"
Sonoma Plein Air, Sonoma, CA
2003 "Second Place" San Juan
Capistrano CAC Plein Air Event
2001 "Honorable Mention"
American Impressionist Society 3rd Annual Exhibition
1999 "Finalist" Still Life
Category, The Artist Magazine Annual Competition
1998 "Helen De Cozen Award" at
The American Artists Professional League Grand National Exhibition,
New York, NY
1998 "Finalist" in The Artist
Magazine Annual Competition
1997 "The Washington Square
Award" at the Salmagundi Show, New York, NY
1994 "First Place Oils" in the
Scottsdale Art School’s Best and Brightest Show
1991 "Best of Show" in the
California Statewide Art Show
Exhibitions
2005 Laguna Art Festival, Laguna Beach, CA
2005 San
Luis Obispo Art Festival, San Luis Obispo, CA
2005 Carmel Art Festival, Carmel, CA
2005 Telluride Plein Air Invitational, Telluride, CO
2005 Sedona Plein Air, Sedona, AZ
2005 Sonoma Plein Air Painting Event, Sonoma, CA
2005 O.P.A. Fourteenth
Annual National Juried Exhibition, Chicago, IL
2005 Napa Valley Museum
Plein Air Show
2005 One Person Show,
William Lester Gallery, Point Reyes Station, CA
2004 Sonoma Plein Air,
Sonoma, CA
2004 Point Reyes Paint
Out, Point Reyes Station, CA
2004 En Couleur Show,
William Lester Gallery, Point Reyes Station, CA
2004 Carmel Art
Festival, Carmel, CA
2004 Telluride Plein Air
Invitational, Telluride, CO
2004 Airlie Gardens
Plein Air Invitational, Wilmington, NC
2003 Sonoma Plein Air, Sonoma,
CA (Artists Choice)
2003 San Juan Capistrano CAC
Plein Air Event, San Juan Capistrano, CA (2nd Place)
2003 En Couleur Show, William
Lester Gallery, Point Reyes Station, CA
2003 Point Reyes Paint Out,
Point Reyes Station, CA
2003 Plein Air Painters in the
Foothills, Vault Gallery, Sonora, CA
2002 Still Life Show, William
Lester Gallery, Point Reyes Station, CA
2002 Plein Air Painters in the
Foothills, Vault Gallery, Sonora, CA
2002 Carmel Art Festival,
Carmel, CA
2002 Mission San Juan
Capistrano CAC Plein Air Event, San Juan Capistrano, CA
2002 Sonoma Plein Air Painting
Event, Sonoma, CA
2002 American Impressionist
Society 4th Annual Exhibition, Morro Bay, CA
2002 Gold Medal Show,
California Art Club, Pasadena, CA
2001 American Impressionist
Society 3rd Annual Exhibition, Point Reyes Station, CA
2001 En Couleur, Premier
Exhibition, William Lester Gallery, Point Reyes Station, CA
2001 Gold Medal Show,
California Art Club, Pasadena, CA
2000 American Artist
Professional League, Grand National Exhibition, New York, NY
2000 One Person Show, William
Lester Gallery, Point Reyes Station, CA
2000 Two Person Show, Gallery
One, Mendocino, CA
1999 Two Person Show, Gallery
One, Mendocino, CA
1998 Two Person Show, Gallery
One, Mendocino, CA
1998 American Artists
Professional League, Grand National Exhibition, New York, NY
1997 The Salmagundi Club,
Annual Exhibition, New York, NY
1997 National Oil Painters of
America Show, Greenhouse Gallery, TX
1997 Two Person Show, Gallery
One, Mendocino, CA
1996 National Oil Painters of
America Show
1996 Two Person Show, Gallery
One, Mendocino, CA
1995 National Oil Painters of
America Show, Greenhouse Gallery, TX
1995 Two Person Show, Lee
Youngman Gallery, Calistoga, CA
1994 National Oil Painters of
America Show, Greenhouse Gallery, TX
1994 Group Exhibition, Carl
Wallberg Gallery, Santa Rosa, CA
Published in Print
2006
“High Drama” Feature Article,
Southwest Art, October Collectors issue
2003 "Featured Artist" Plein
Air Scene, June issue
2001 "Artists to Watch"
Southwest Art Magazine, June issue
2001 "Best of the West"
Southwest Art Magazine, May issue
2001 "Clarifying Color" Color
for the Oil Painter (an American Artist Magazine publication,
containing "the best advice on oil colors offered between 1991 and
1999 by American artists")
1996 "Clarifying Your Color"
American Artist Magazine, March issue
Teaching
2002-2005 2, 3 & 5-Day
Workshop, Tomales, CA
2003 4-Day Workshop, Wenmohs
Ranch, Marble Falls, TX
2002 2-Day Workshop, William
Lester Gallery, Point Reyes Station, CA
2001 Various Guest Artist
Demonstrations at local art clubs, organizations and benefits
1994 5-Day Workshop, Kodiak, AK
1996 Class Instruction,
Sebastopol Art Center, Sebastopol, CA
1196 Studio Classes, artist’s
private studio, Santa Rosa, CA
1992-1994 Class Instruction,
Bentley Gallery, Santa Rosa, CA
1992 Class Instruction, Village
Art Store & Studio, Santa Rosa, CA
Gallery Affiliations
Lee Youngman Gallery,
Calistoga, CA
William Lester Gallery, Point
Reyes Station, Marin County, CA
Art Club Memberships
American Artists Professional
League
American Impressionist Society
California Art Club, Artist
Member
Oil Painters of America
En Couleur (group of six
painters)
Statement
I paint in oils in bold fresh
color. My subjects include: still lifes, interior settings, outdoor
garden settings and a variety of landscapes en plein air. The
ever-present beauty that God has created is what inspires me. I am
but a sojourner leaving my mark and yielding to my desire. I can’t
image doing anything else!
As a child, I did not speak
until age three, expressing myself instead through coloring. I was
fortunate to have a great art teacher – Mr. Neil Epps, from junior
high all the way through high school. To my surprise, one of my
class painting projects sold at a special school exhibit for $500.
Although I consider myself mostly self-taught, I have attended
numerous college art classes and artists workshops. I accredit the
works of such great masters as Sergei Bongart, Joaquin Sorolla and
Franz Bischoff as being most influential in developing my own use of
color, light and subtle grays.
Since the beginning of my
professional career around 1990, my works have sold to collectors in
most of the United States and many places abroad. |
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