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2025 Signs of Spring Album


Read instructions on the Online Contest Prospectus page.

General online contest description: Online Contests

Specific contest description: 2025 Signs of Spring Contest

Congratulations to the winners!

First Place - Kathleen Reilly for Spring Walk (painting #15)

Second Place - Donna Barnhill for Spring Melt (painting #17)

Runners Up: Gwen Ethelbah for Woodland Sketch #3 (painting #6)

Jaye Buros for Echoes of Ghost Ranch (painting #10)

Albert Handell for Abiquiu Tree (painting #11)

Nora Larimer for Lupine Along the Conejos Trail (painting #16)

Tom Brown for Texas Open Space (painting #22)

Bill Meuser for Claret Cup (painting #28)




31 photo(s) Updated on: 10 Jun 2025
  • 1. "Gladsome Day", oil on panel, 8x8 inches
  • 2. Hayshed in April, 5"x7", oil, north Texas.
  • 3. Morning in the Anza Borrego, 16"x20", soft pastel, Anza Borrego Desert State Park, CA
  • 4. View from Echo Amphitheater, 8x16, oil on panel. $320
  • 5. Abiquiu Spring, pastel 11x14, Abiquiu, $550
  • 6. Runner Up - Gwen Ethelbah - Woodland Sketches #3,
  • 7. Lakeville Road #3, 12x9, oil, Sonoma, Ca
  • 8. Surf's Up! , 8x10", Oil, Pacific Grove, California
  • 9. Yearning to Climb
  • 10. Runner Up - Jay Buros - Echoes of Ghost Ranch, oil, 14x18, painted during the Abiquiu retreat.
  • 11. Runner Up - Albert Handell - "Abiquiu Tree", pastel/watercolor, 12x16, Abiquiu Inn
  • 12. Bloom'n Yucca, 8x8 oil on linen panel, Green Valley, AZ, $350
  • 13. View from Bluebird Ranch 16x8 egg tempera $775
  • 14. Mimbres Homestead, oil, 8x10, Lake Roberts N.M., $640.
  • 15. 1st Place - Kathleen Reilly - Spring Walk, 8 x 10, Pella Crossing, oil, $450
  • 16. Runner Up - Nora Larimer - "Lupine Along the Conejos River", 15x11" Watercolor, Southern Colorado, $500
  • 17. 2nd Place - Donna Barnhill - “Spring Melt”, 6”x8”, oil
  • 18. "Spring in the Mountains" - Watercolor - 7.5" x 9.75"
  • 19. Reflections
  • 20. As Green as it Gets , 20 x 16, oil/cold wax medium, Mt Lemmon, Tuscon, AZ
  • 21. Crystal River,11x14,watercolor,Marble,CO
  • 22. Runner Up - Tom Brown - "Texas Open Space" 10 x 14 Watercolor. $850
  • 23. Sugar Maples in Spring, 6x8, oil, Flanders Nature Center Woodbury, CT, $195
  • 24. Rio Grande at John Dunn Bridge oil, 16" x 12", Arroyo Hondo, NFS
  • 25. "SPRING HARMONY"
  • 26. Claret Cup, 8"x10", Water mixable oils, Albuquerque NM
  • 27. "Checkers Anyone?"
  • 28. Runner Up - Bill Meuser - Claret Cup, Oil, 16x12, Eldorado Community Center, $900
  • 29. Mystical Galisteo Rose 25 - 8x10"-Oil on canvas- $300.00
  • 30. Iris in Pink
  • 31. Spring near Monastery Road, 12” x 9”, watercolor and gouache, painted April 27, 2025 near Monastery Road and Echo Amphitheater in Abiquiu


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