Water is our whole world. It bends light, warps straight lines, and dissolves the very things we try so hard to preserve. It’s no wonder artists keep coming back to it. Oceans, rain, rivers, puddles, or even a hint of blue, water gives us a way to splash around with feeling, memory, and transformation. JUST ADD WATER leans into this unruly behavior, celebrating what happens when a single drop sets the tone.
JUST ADD WATER
Best of Show- Fish Out of Water
Director's Choice- Abyss
Director's Choice- Between Two Worlds
submerged.
Ocean Visions
Shimmering
Monet’s Garden
Karen Romani
encaustic wax
Glen Carbon, Illinois
Tide Pools
Pine Valley Swim Club
Aussie Dragon
At Peace
Under the Light
GeoThermal Activity 3
Catch of the Day
Sumi Chatterjee
oil on stretched canvas
Belle Mead, New Jersey
Origins III
Dorothy Raymond
dye-painted stenciled cotton; wool, silk, rayon and cotton appliqué
Loveland, Colorado
Pond Scrum
Linda Hancock
colored pencil, gouache on fine genuine slunk calfskin vellum
Madison, Wisconsin
Woman Submerged
Splash
Kathleen Fietz
airbrush with acrylic paint on paper
Orange, California
Surface Tension: Reflections
From Above
Affinity
Lee Heintze
photography
Boulder, Colorado
Vortex
Creation
moonlit pond
South Georgia Pond
Cheese
Under Bridge Over Rocks
Remember the Fallen
Refuge
Shallow
Cobweb and Dew
John Diephouse
photography
Lansing, Michigan
Beneath
Dave Kendrick
composite digital photography
Rehoboth, Massachusetts
Glamour in Black and White
Mike Hopsicker
photography
Sterling, Colorado
Turmoil 7
Ripple Effect 902
RJ Muna
photography
San Francisco, California
Stream Branches
Still Standing
Splash of Innocence
Badwater Reflections
Hell or High Water
Flow
Suspension
Josefina Herzovich
color pastel and graphite pencil on toned tan paper
Navidad, Chile
Flamingo of Camarque
Camille Neville
photography
Duxbury, Massachusetts
River of Dreams
The Fisherman (A Stroll in the Park)
Turn It On
Karen Rothman
hand-printed & drawn collage and acrylic paint
Newton, Massachusetts
Flow
Paper Cuts
Siren Dawn: Rose
Cat Hoffa
oil painting
Memphis, Tennessee
Three Mile Creek, Wilder KY
Melissa Kelley
watercolor on paper
Covington, Kentucky
Between Worlds
Better Be
Victoria Pool
From Where I Stand
Melissa Stephens
encaustic mixed media and fresco on cradle board
Walnut Creek, California
WhipSplash
Water Is Gold
Island
Aqua Breeze
Directionless
Spring Roar
Transitory Space, Nantucket # 4A
St. Ives Triptych
Yvonne Klocek
photography
West Saint Paul, Minnesota
Sea Stack
Just Us Gulls
James Anderson
gouache
Waterford, Connecticut
Plateau
Molokai Wave Dance
Oceans Last Dance
Exit 36B Philadelphia
Joanne Funkhouser
oil on aluminum
Harleysville, Pennsylvania
The Pull of Water
Cape Cod
Making a Splash
Ghosts of Swimmers Past
Gloria Naisbitt
oil and mixed media on canvas
Santa Rosa, California
Thumbs Up
Blue Metropolis
Surface Tension
Surfacing Series: Kaya Deep Water
LittleBoySurfer
Wet Kitty at Dawn
The Sublime Tempest
Flocks of angels over water
Life Raft
Eileen Foti
9 color lithograph
Skillman, New Jersey
Cycles
Eshitha Rao
digital
Concord, Massachusetts
Melt
Strait Blue
Barbara Matthews
hand dyed silk, maple burl wood, acrylic glass
Manchester, Washington