Congratulations to the Fall 2025 award winners!

1st Place / Best of Show: Linda Hoffman-Snodgrass – Sunny Delight

Congratulations to the WSO members whose paintings were chosen as award winners in the Fall 2025 Exhibition! The first through sixth place winners and Awards of Distinction were chosen by our juror, Stan Miller. Attendees at the opening reception voted for the People’s Choice.

  • 1st Place / Best of Show: Linda Hoffman-Snodgrass – Sunny Delight
  • 2nd Place: Roxanne Williams – He is Watching You
  • 3rd Place: Helen Brown – Crooked River Gorge
  • 4th Place: Airi Foote – Fusion 1
  • 5th Place: Charlotte Peterson – Color Awakens the Quiet
  • 6th Place:  Sarah Bouwsma – Paradise River
  • People’s Choice: Wayne Ruby – Glorious Sunrise

Awards of Distinction (in alphabetical order by the artist’s last name)

  • Bill Baily – Fall Harvest
  • Robin Becic – Racing Towards the Tension
  • Mary Burgess – Rain Bird
  • Susan Escobar – To the Sea
  • Terri Gonzalez – Force of Nature
  • Carole Hillsbery – Stairs
  • Jean Kyle – Joy
  • Daemion Lee – Last Night
  • Tess Myers – JJ
  • Jacelen Pearson – Transitions: Seasons
  • Mila Raphael – Portugal Reflections
  • Shannon Schmidt Breslin – Woodland Waterfall
  • Susan Spears – Carroll Rim
  • Alisha Whitman – Abundance

Congratulations also to all 80 members who were juried into the Fall Exhibition! See the full list here.

Video of the 80 accepted paintings: