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Dawn Whitelaw                          Oil                              Tennessee

After over thirty years of teaching painting, Dawn Whitelaw still thinks of herself as a student. Like the painters she so admires, Sorolla, Sargent, and Zorn, she fully understands the importance of painting from life.  Her ability to capture life in paint has been distinguished by the following awards: Best of Show at the Portrait Society of America’s International Competition in 2001, and Award of Excellence in the regional Oil Painters of America exhibition in 2002.  Most of her instruction and inspiration comes from nationally preeminent artist, Everett Raymond Kinstler. She considers one of her career highlights to be juried into two sessions of the master program at the Santa Fe Institute of Art with Kinstler.  Dawn is a faculty member at Peninsula School of Art and is represented online at www.dawnwhitelaw.com and www.richlandfineart.com.