World’s Best Landscape Impressionists / 2023 AMERICAN ART AWARDS: QUENNEVILLE, SOHN, ROSSOUW, SCHEMBRI, CASTLEMAN, ZENTNER, KENÉZ, CHWIALKOWSKA, BELYAVKSYA, LEE, AAYUSH, DANILUKA & RAMON
Artists from 72 countries competed in the 2023 AMERICAN ART AWARDS. Twenty of the most revered galleries in the USA were sent around 2,000 online images to score in drawing, painting, sculpture, digital and photography. The 300+ winning works, 1st to 6th Place (and ties) in all 50 categories, can be seen in this series of articles.
USA’s top galleries decided winners in every medium: oil, acrylic, watercolor, charcoal, pastel, realism, impressionism, naïve, abstract, expressionism, human figure, animal, landscape, fantasy, surrealism, pop, portrait, self-portrait, political, erotic, cubism, floral, humor, spiritual, etc..
Art collectors can see all the winning images and corresponding contact info to the best contemporary artists in the world here: https://americanartawards.com/2023-winning-artists-american-art-awards/
Winners in this category are from CANADA, USA, SOUTH AFRICA, AUSTRALIA, HUNGARY, INDIA, SCOTLAND, LATVIA & SRI LANKA.
BIO OF 1ST PLACE WINNER: Raymond Quenneville
Born in 1956 in Trois-Rivières (Canada), Raymond Quenneville is a self-taught artist who has been painting for over 40 years. After having explored a variety of media, he went back to oil painting, and decided to pursue his own unique style in expressing landscape and light.
He likes to paint peaceful environments, expressing serenity and equanimity of places where it is good to stop and just be for a moment.
Winner of several national and international awards he has received many special mentions from juries and the public. He is a member of the Institut des arts figuratifs (IAF), the Society of Canadian Artists (SCA), the Mondial Art Academia (MAA) and has been nominated as Master of Fine Arts by the Académie internationale des beaux-arts du Québec (AIBAQ). www.raymondquenneville.qc.ca
ARTISTS’ CONTACTS / SEE MORE OF THE ARTISTS’ WORKS:
1st Place — Tie RAYMOND QUENNEVILLE CANADA www.raymondquenneville.qc.ca “Okanagan” 24x48" Oil on canvas.
1st Place — Tie SEOYEON SOHN USA artistbonkoo@gmail.com “Never-Ending Summer” 24x18” Acrylic on canvas.
2nd Place — Tie ROELOF ROSSOUW SOUTH AFRICA www.roelofrossouwart.com “’Venice Panorama’’ 24x43’’ Oil on canvas.
3rd Place — Tie RICKY SCHEMBRI AUSTRALIA www.rickyschembri.com “View From My Back Yard” 96x77cm Pastel on canson mi Tientes board.
3rd Place — Tie DOUGLAS CASTLEMAN USA https://douglas-castleman.pixels.com/ “Early Morning Farm” 16x20" Oil on canvas.
4th Place — Tie LUCILA ZENTNER AUSTRALIA https://www.lucilazentnerart.com “The Tree At Mrs. Macquarie’s Chair” 100x120cm Oil.
4th Place — Tie ISTVÁN KENÉZ HUNGARY www.facebook.com/istkenez “Autumn Lights” 50x35cm Oil on panel.
5th Place — Tie MARGARET CHWIALKOWSKA CANADA http://www.artistsincanada.co/margaret “Autumn’s Splendor, Ottawa River” 30x40" Oil on canvas.
5th Place — Tie ELENA BELYAVKSYA USA belyavse@gmail.com “Como Lake Sailing” 35x45cm Oil on canvas.
5th Place — Tie HEATHER LEE USA sgwcjslee@gmail.com “Somewhere Only We Know” 16x20in Acrylic on canvas.
6th Place — Tie AAYUSH INDIA https://aayushartstudio.wordpress.com/ “Balance” 14X16" Watercolor on paper.
6th Place — Tie MARINA DANILUKA SCOTLAND/LATVIA www.instagram.com/maridani_art “Once Upon A Time At Sea…” 60x60cm Oil on canvas.
6th Place — Tie RASIKA RAMON SRI LANKA https://www.gallerycoronado.com/rasika-originals “Waterfront” Watercolor on art paper.
In 2023, AMERICAN ART AWARDS had submissions from these 72 countries: Afghanistan, Algeria, Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Columbia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, France, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Myanmar, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, Panama, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Scotland, Serbia, Slovakia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Switzerland, Tobago, Trinidad, Turkey, UK, Ukraine, USA, Viet Nam, Wales, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
USA’s 20 Best Galleries & Museums who were asked to score online art in 2023 were:
American Art Awards 20 Best Galleries & Museums for 2023, in alphabetical order:
BEST IN ARIZONA: Exposures International Gallery Of Fine Art
BEST IN CALIFORNIA: Sparks Gallery
BEST IN COLORADO: Mirada Fine Art
BEST IN FLORIDA: MAC Art Galleries
BEST IN GEORGIA: Black Art In America™ (BAIA)
BEST IN INDIANA: Gallery Forty-Two
BEST IN KANSAS: CityArts
BEST IN KENTUCKY: KMAC Contemporary Art Museum
BEST IN LOUISIANA: Jonathan Ferrara Gallery
BEST IN MAINE: Clarke Gallery
BEST IN MONTANA: Cawdrey Gallery
BEST IN NEBRASKA: Kiechel Fine Art
BEST IN NEVADA: Elena Bulatova Fine Art
BEST IN NEW MEXICO: Thornwood Gallery
BEST IN NEW YORK: Gallery 23 NY
BEST IN SOUTH CAROLINA: Mary Martin Galleries Of Fine Art
BEST IN TEXAS: Ao5 Gallery
BEST IN SOUTH DAKOTA: South Dakota Art Museum
BEST IN VERMONT: Helmholz Fine Art
BEST IN WYOMING: Gallery Wild
American Art Awards https://www.americanartawards.com/ annually awards 20 museums and/or galleries, who agree to score art and award nearly 300+ deserving contemporary artists from 60+ countries: painters, photographers, sculptors and digital artists.
