World’s Best Landscape Impressionists: RODIGAS, MCCARTEN, FILICHKIN, AAYUSH, MPAMPALIA, ROSSOUW, ALMEIDA, GAULT, BARKER, JAMESON & KENÉZ/ 2024 Art Collectors Choice Awards
Artists from 62 countries competed in the 2024 ART COLLECTORS CHOICE AWARDS. 20 international art collectors scored 50 categories of online images covering drawing, painting, sculpture, digital and photography.
The winning works will be revealed in this column one category at a time.
The ART COLLECTORS CHOICE AWARDS winners in CATEGORY 22. IMPRESSIONISM — LANDSCAPE represent GERMANY, CANADA, USA, GREECE, SOUTH AFRICA & HUNGARY.
BIO OF 1ST PLACE WINNER: Steffi Rodigas
After a life in various professions and raising three children, she broke with all conventions and left her secure job. Since then, she has been creatively expressing her feelings, thoughts and ideas through art and music and has been working as a freelance artist since 2018. She works with acrylics, oils and watercolors and developed an abstract art form “ART in ART”. Her art focuses on her love and the beauty of nature, characters, children but also world events such as climate change, pollution of the oceans and much more.
With her passion for three-dimensionality, she has created numerous sculptures from building insulation material and designs them intricately with pouring elements.
In Germany, she has already had 9 solo exhibitions and numerous collective exhibitions. Steffi Rodigas’ works have been shown internationally in France, Italy, Great Britain, Spain, Luxembourg, Argentina, Malta, Turkey, Japan, Switzerland and the USA. Steffi Rodigas has received 13 international art awards and numerous accolades. Her works are represented in various books and magazines, also as covers, as well as in private and public collections worldwide. She is a member of the International Association of Visual Artists IAVA. In 2023, her own book “Art- Passion- Emotions” with 145 artworks and biographical information was published. https://www.steffi-rodigas-artist.com / instagram: steffirodigas_artist / Facebook: steffirodigas.artist
WINNER WEBSITES: CATEGORY 22. IMPRESSIONISM — LANDSCAPE
1st Place STEFFI RODIGAS GERMANY www.steffi-rodigas-artist.com “Silence” 100x100cm Acrylic on canvas.
2nd Place JAY MCCARTEN CANADA www.instagram.com/jay_mccarten “An Autumn Moment” 36x36” Acrylic, canvas.
3rd Place — Tie STEFFI RODIGAS GERMANY www.steffi-rodigas-artist.com “A Night In Italy” 70x50cm Acrylic on canvas.
3rd Place — Tie TANYA FILICHKIN USA https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/1-tanya-filichkin.html “Shadows And Tall Trees” 16x20” Acrylic on canvas.
4th Place — Tie AAYUSH USA https://aayushartstudio.wordpress.com/ “Only In Dreams” 9x12" Watercolor.
4th Place — Tie DAFNI MPAMPALIA GREECE “Scenery With Snow” 30x40” Oil on canvas.
5th Place — Tie ROELOF ROSSOUW SOUTH AFRICA https://www.roelofrossouwart.com/ “View Of Cape Town From Table Mountain” 30x40'’ Oil on canvas.
5th Place — Tie TONY ALMEIDA USA www.artbytony.org “An Afternoon Walk” 25x35” Mixed media on canvas.
6th Place — Tie MICHAEL GAULT USA https://artisticendeavorsfineart.com “Scarlet Autumn” 36x48” Oil on linen.
6th Place — Tie MICHAEL E. BARKER USA https://bandofbrothersconsultinggroup.com/michael-barker-band-of-brothers-custom-creations-michelangelo-custom-art/ “Raging Sea” 12x12” Epoxy on wood.
6th Place — Tie PAMELA JAMESON USA https://pamjoy.art/ “Moody Landscape 2” 10x16" Acrylic.
6th Place — Tie ISTVÁN KENÉZ HUNGARY 50x32cm Oil on panel. https://www.fineartamerica.com/profiles/istvan-kenez “Autumn Creek”
ART COLLECTORS can see the hundreds of winning images and corresponding contact info to all the artists here::
In 2024, ART COLLECTORS CHOICE AWARDS had submissions from these 62 countries: Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Democratic Republic Of Congo, Denmark, England, France, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Paraguay, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tobago, Togo, Trinidad, Turkey, United Arabian Emirates, UK, Ukraine, USA, Vietnam, Wales, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
20 international art collectors asked to score art:
Andrew Cameron & Marcus Hamilton — Australia
Jason Stuckless — Toronto, Ontario
Floyd M. Elwell, III — Rancho Mirage, California
Jan Gold — Roseville, California
Michael Gregg Michaud — Los Angeles, California
Judi Evans — Los Angeles, California
Alec Wilder — Los Angeles / Las Vegas / New Orleans
Eddie Dyer — Los Angeles / Las Vegas / New Orleans
Michelle Foglesong Wilson — Las Vegas
Thomas Zora — Las Vegas
Paul Iacono — Chicago
Ron Lundin — Naples, Florida / Chicago, Illinois / Vail, Colorado
Jay H. Brewer — Orlando, Florida
Celeste Miller — St. Petersburg, Florida
Alan McMullen — Fannettsburg, Philadelphia
Brian Townley — Waco, Texas
Blaine L. Richards-Miller — Wichita Falls, Texas
Aimee Unakis — Georgetown, Illinois
Karen Valentine — Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Mitchell Antesky — Toledo Ohio
