Introducing Our Amazing
5th Annual Women in Watercolor Online Juried Competition
2024 Awards Judges
Lynn D. Pratt
Lynn D. Pratt is a professional artist and signature member in the American Watercolor Society, Women in Watercolor and multiple others.
Lynn paints in a photorealistic style which she adopted from her background in architecture and her love for detail and perfectionist nature shows in her paintings.
She is an award-winning artist, demonstrator, juror and watercolor instructor and showcases her work in solo shows and international exhibitions. She has been featured on television and print including Splash, Watercolor Artist, Artscope and The Artists Magazine.
Lynn loves teaching watercolor and finds inspiration from sharing her love of the medium with others with in person classes and her Let’s Paint Patreon Online School.
Lynn started Women in Watercolor in 2020 and runs the International Women’s Organization.
Janine Gallizia
I am an international artist, judge, curator of international exhibitions and the co-founder and Art Director of the Watercolour magazine The Art of Watercolour. I have worked as a professional artist for almost 25 years, exhibiting my paintings and teaching watercolour throughout the world.
Painting and drawing are passions. I have travelled the world speaking on the importance of Art in today’s society. I also give conferences on how artists are able to get better results from their work; focusing on market creation and development. Visual art is a powerful tool of expression, as artists we already know this. However, what a pleasure it is to awaken this understanding in the general public.
Lana Privitera
Originally from Spain, Lana Privitera graduated in 1983 from the Fine Arts School of Zaragoza. After working in Advertising for a few years, she moved to the USA in the early 1990s. Today, Mrs. Privitera is known internationally for her colorful and realistic watercolor Still Life’s.
Her paintings have gathered a long list of top awards both in National and International art competitions and is often featured in art publications, both in the USA and abroad.
Her award-winning watercolor “Lessons not learned” is the cover for the in the “Watercolor Artist” magazine, Spring 2024 issue.
Lana is a Signature Member of AWS, NWS and TWSA.
Carrie Waller
Carrie has won numerous awards and has been published in many publications including the Watercolor Artist Magazine, The Art of Watercolor, Pratique des Arts, Artist’s and Illustrators, International Artist’s Magazine, American Art Collector, Southwest Artist’s Magazine and Splash, The Best of Watercolor series, 14 and 16 through 23. Her works have exhibited all over the world recently at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Kyoto Kyocera Museum, and the Hiroshima Prefectural Museum. She has also exhibited in Thessaloniki, Greece, Fabriano, Italy, Santa Marta, Colombia, London, England, Shenzhen, China, Brussels, Belgium, and the Salmagundi Club, New York. She teaches workshops, online and in person and is an ambassador for Daniel Smith Watercolors.
Lisa Wang
Melbourne based artist and art teacher, paints in both watercolour and oils. Lisa received an art bachelor degree in Fashion Design in 2000 in Shanghai. In 2002 she emigrated to New Zealand, establishing her own art school and becoming a respected art teacher. In 2007, she moved to Australia, and started working as a full-time artist. Lisa is a member of VAS and WSV, and was the Vice President of the Watercolour Society of Victoria from 2019-2022. She has held 9 solo exhibitions and many group exhibitions. Lisa enjoys working with an extensive variety of subjects, but portraits and wildlife are her favourite. Her confident brush work, use of colour and ability to capture light and details make her paintings unique and highly sought after by art lovers and collectors worldwide.
Lorraine Simonds
Lorraine Simonds, is a British-Canadian Artist, best known for her atmospheric and emotive portraiture. Her work, characterized by vibrant yet nuanced and sometimes impetuous brushwork, explores the depth of the human experience, blending Eastern and Western artistic traditions. Lorraine attained her degree in Fine Art focusing on conceptual arts and took a lengthy hiatus from Visual Arts before she embarked on her journey as a self-taught watercolourist. She is an International Brand Ambassador of Rockwell Art Canada, and shares are knowledge of watercolour portraiture through several recorded classes, with work housed in private collections throughout North America and Asia.
Lorraine Watry
Lorraine, a Colorado native, loves to paint reflections in glass, water and metal. Birds are a favorite subject as well. She is an award-winning watercolor artist and instructor and the current President of the National Watercolor Society. Lorraine is a signature member of Women in Watercolor, the National Watercolor Society, American Women Artists and others. Her paintings have been exhibited across the US and internationally in Canada, Italy, Scotland, China and Taiwan. Lorraine’s art has been published in the Best of Watercolor: Splash 14, 20, 23, 24. She has had articles in International Artist Magazine, The Artist Magazine, and Pratique des Arts.
Núria Riera
Núria Riera was born in a town near Barcelona. Inspired by the sea and the ocean, Núria’s paintings usually depict beach scenes. Her paintings are not complicated scenes but actually quite simple ones, she likes the beauty in ordinary things and paints her surroundings the way she sees them.
Núria turned towards watercolors for her connection to water. She loves swimming and feels very connected to the sea. This is where she gets most of the inspiration for her paintings.
Her paintings have been selected for international exhibitions and won awards. She has also been featured in specialized magazines.