World’s Best Minimalists: MOORE, REYMORE, JAMESON, MATALA, MCCONNELL & LIM / 2024 Art Collectors Choice Awards

Thom Bierdz
6 min readMar 31, 2024

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 25. MINIMALISM represent USA, GREECE & CANADA.

BIO OF 1ST PLACE WINNER: Susan Moore resides in Northern California, and has been recognized on many venues as being a master artist in her field. As such she is always focused on creating meaningful as well as thought provoking paintings. She is both formally educated and self taught, and believes that as artists we never stop learning how to best express our goals, and to share our experiences as well as our emotions with our audience through our art. Education, and a natural knack for imaginative creativity, and learning how to apply all in order to create something worthy when done. Dedication and hard work from beginning to end, this artist stands tall. Artist quote “Art is an illusion; life but a dream. The devil is in the details.” www.foreverendeavor.us

WINNER WEBSITES: CATEGORY 25. MINIMALISM

1st Place SUSAN MOORE USA www.foreverendeavor.us “Paper Cherries On A Blanket” 30x40" Acrylic on canvas.

2nd Place LINDA REYMORE USA www.lindareymore.com “Egret” 30x30" Acrylic on canvas.

3rd Place — Tie LINDA REYMORE USA www.lindareymore.com “Cat On A Hot Tin Roof” 30x30" Acrylic, modeling medium on canvas.

3rd Place — Tie PAMELA JAMESON USA https://pamjoy.art/ “Blue Beach” 15x27" Watercolor.

4th Place — Tie PAMELA JAMESON USA https://pamjoy.art/ “Between Black And White Series 2” 10x14" Mixed media.

4th Place — Tie MARIA MATALA GREECE https://mariamatala.blogspot.com/ “Ecstasy” 30x21cm Computer art collage.

4thPlace — Tie GILLIAN MCCONNELL CANADA https://www.gillianmcconnell.ca “Faces In Storm” 30x30cm Acrylic.

5th Place — Tie LINDA REYMORE USA www.lindareymore.com “Wired Happy” 16x16" Acrylic, modeling paste, bronze wire on canvas.

5th Place — Tie MARIA MATALA GREECE https://mariamatala.blogspot.com/ “Nature In Love” 120x60cm Acrylic on canvas.

6th Place — Tie JIYOON LIM USA “Psychology Of A Mind” 24x24" Acrylic on canvas.

6th Place — Tie LINDA REYMORE USA www.lindareymore.com “Series 2, Composition 3” 30x30" Acrylic, wall paint, modeling medium, cheesecloth on canvas.

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

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Thom Bierdz

One of Medium’s TOP ART CONTRIBUTORS, award-winning author, actor, film-maker, painter. 12 books: 6 on art. President of WAA & AAA & ACCA.