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Brenda Howell was born in Oklahoma and also grew up in New Mexico and Southern California. Her mother was an artist and art teacher and began training her daughter to draw in early childhood. Being included with her mother?s outdoor sketching classes was the beginning of a lifelong love of exploring and depicting the natural world. “She instructed me in drawing and painting in watercolor and oils before I was five years old. She enabled me to look at the world with the eyes of an artist, noticing colors and shapes and teaching me drawing skills.” |
Solo and Group Exhibitions 2025 Oil Painters of America Western Regional Exhibition, Illume Gallery West, Philipsburg, MT 2024 National Oil & Acrylic Painters Society Best of America Small Works Exhibition, Sugarman-Peterson Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 2024 National Oil & Acrylic Painters Society Spring International Online Exhibition 2024 Oil Painters of America Annual National Exhibition, Mark Arts, Wichita KS 2023 National Oil & Acrylic Painters Society Best of America Exhibition, Principle Gallery, Alexandria VA 2022 — Finalist in Landscape, Art Renewal Center’s International Nov 20, 2022 Mountain Oyster Club Art Show and Sale, Tucson, AZ Sept 15, 2022 American Impressionist Society 23rd Annual National Juried Exhibition, Mary Williams Fine Arts, Boulder, Colorado July 15, 2022 Women of the West, Santa Fe Trails Fine Art, Santa Fe NM Nov 2021 Mountain Oyster Club Art Show and Sale, Tucson, AZ Sept 2021 National Oil & Acrylic Painters Society Best of America Exhibition, Dana Gallery, Missoula, MT July 2021 National Oil & Acrylic Painters Society Associate Members Online Exhibition Aug 2020 Oil Painters of America Western Regional Virtual Exhibition, Illume Gallery, St George, UT Aug 2020 Oil Painters of America 29th Annual National Exhibition, RS Hanna Gallery, Fredericksburg, TX Feb 2020 Representing the West: A New Frontier, Sangre de Cristo Art Center, Pueblo, CO Nov 2019 Mountain Oyster Club Art Show and Sale, Tucson, AZ July 2019 Plein Air Painters of New Mexico Small Works Show, Taos Museum at Fechin Studio, Taos, NM Nov 2018 Mountain Oyster Club Art Show and Sale, Tucson, AZ Sept-Oct 2018 National Oil & Acrylic Painters Society, Nov 2017 Plein Air Painters of New Mexico, Nov 2017 National Oil & Acrylic Painters Society, Oct-Nov 2017 National Oil & Acrylic Painters Society, Jan-Feb 2017 New Mexico Art League, Nov 2016 Plein Air Painters of New Mexico, Sept 2016 Oil Painters of America, May 2016 Oil Painters of America, 2015 Art Renewal Center’s International 2015 California Art Club "Landscapes of the West II" 2014 Oil Painters of America Western Regional Show 2014 Art Renewal Center’s International 2013 Holiday Treasures Salon 2013 4th Annual 6 inch Squared Exhibition and Sale 2013 Beyond Boundaries 2011-13 May Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ 2013 Oil Painters of America, 2013 Art Renewal Center’s International 2012 International Guild of Realism Annual Exhibition 2012 3rd Annual 6 inch Squared Exhibition 2012 10th Annual Holiday Small Works Show 2012 Something Superbly Small Show, Brea Art Gallery, Brea, CA 2011 Oil Painters of America Western Regional Show 2011 Arlene Siegel Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 2005-2011 Windrush Gallery, Sedona, AZ 2010 Pearce Museum Artist-in-Residence Solo Exhibition: 2009 Dodson Galleries 26th Anniversary Group Show 2008/2009 Art Renewal Center’s International 2008 Two Artist Show, 2008 — Open Hands, Open Hearts, 2007 An Evening in Santa Fe Invitational Show 2007 Salon International 2007, 2007 Oil Painters of America, 2007 National Society of Artists, 2006/2007 Little Gems, 2006 Night Visions, 2006 Inspiration from the Forest, 2005 American Women Artists Annual Juried Exhibition, 2005 Arts for the Parks Mini 100 Exhibit, 2004 Artists of the Grand Canyon, 2004 Flagstaff Open Studios, 2004 Celebration of Fine Art, Publications Oct/Nov, 2020 Western Art & Architecture, Illuminations Nov, 2013 Southwest Art Magazine, Artist to Watch June, 2013 Grand Canyon News, Williams, AZ June, 2013 Fullerton Observer, Fullerton, CA May, 2010 Explore Magazine, Corsicana, TX Apr, 2010 Art News DFW, TX Mar, 2010 Corsicana Daily Sun, Corsicana, TX Feb, 2009 Pinyon Press, Grand Canyon, AZ Sept, 2007 New Mexico Woman Magazine, Albuquerque, NM August, 2007 Southwest Art Magazine, Boulder, CO April, 2004 Mountain Living Magazine, Flagstaff, AZ Sept, 1997 Tulsa Woman News, Tulsa, OK Awards and Honors 2023 ARC Staff Award, 16th Art Renewal Center’s International 2020 Peoples Choice Award, Representing the West: A New Frontier, Sangre de Cristo Art Center, Pueblo, CO 2017 Second Place Award, National Oil & Acrylic Painters Society, 2013 Realism Award of Excellence, Oil Painters of America 22nd Annual National Juried Exhibition 2010 Artist in Residence, Badlands National Park 2008/2009 ARC Staff Award, Art Renewal Center’s International 2007 Southwest Art Magazine Award, Salon International 2007, 2007 Phillip G. Paratore Jr. Memorial Award, National Society of Artists, 2005 Merit Award, American Women Artists Annual Juried Exhibition, 1992 American Artist Magazine Award, Louisiana Watercolor Society 22nd Intl Juried Exhibit, World Trade Center, New Orleans, LA 1991 Jurors Award, Kansas Watercolor Society Five-State Juried Exhibition, Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS 1990 Best of Show Award, Tulsa Community College, Tulsa, OK |
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