About the Artist

 

 

     Russell Jewell is an internationally recognized plein air painter with signature memberships in the American Watercolor Society, National Watercolor Society and The Transparent Watercolor Society of America. His work recently traveled with the American Watercolor Society exhibition.  Jewell’s accomplishments include a doctorate in Art Education from the University of Georgia and a Fulbright Memorial fund scholarship to Japan. Jewell’s most recent awards include: Mountain Maryland Plein Air: Best Architecture, Gloucester Arts Festival Plein Air: Best Architecture and The Eastern Shore Plein Air Agricultural Collection museum purchase award during Plein Air Easton competition. Russell Jewell is represented by Wells Gallery at the Sanctuary on Kiawah Island, SC. In November 2026 Russell Jewell’s work was published in a feature article "Chasing the Sun" Charleston Living Magazine.  

 

Significant Art Recognitions for Russell Jewell since 2015

 

2026 Published Feature Article, "Chasing the Sun" Charleston Living Magazine Nov/Dec

2026 Smokies Plein Air Quick Draw Second Place

2026 Alpharetta Ga. Plein Air Quick Draw Second Place

2026 Hilton Head Plein Air Quick Draw First Place

2026 Hilton Head Plein Air Third Place

2026 Published: "Best of Watercolor" American Artist Magazine

2026 Plein Heirs Paint Out Second Place

2026 Art Fields Plein Air Second Place

2026 North Carolina Plein Air @ NewBern Judge and Workshop Instructor

2025 Published: Plein Air Magazine (June/July)

2025 Best Quick Draw Mountain Maryland Plein Air

2025 Best Light Mountain Maryland Plein Air

2025 Published: The Artist Magazine "Best of Acrylic"

2025 Best of Show Edisto Plein Air

2024 Judge:  Mid Atlantic Watercolor Exhibition with the Baltimore Watercolor Society

2024 One-Man-Show: Wells Gallery Kiawah Island, SC "My Backyard"

2024 American Whiskey Painters Exhibit People's Choice Award

2024 Judge:  Top of Georgia Plein Air Hiawassee, Ga 

2024 Competed in NC Plein Air at New Bern awarded: Best New Bern Painting 

2024 Plein Air Convention Expo Faculty Field Painter 

2024 Gloucester, Va Plein Air Festival Best Agricultural Painting

2024 Easton Plein Air Invited Alumni Artist 

2023 Edisto Island Plein Air Paint Out:  Best of Show

2023 Judge: Georgia Color Plein Air Competition

2023 Feature Article Plein Air Magazine Oct/Nov "Under the Sicilian Sun"

2023 Juried into Plein Air Easton, Easton Maryland (12th juried participation)

2023 Painted in Mountain Maryland Plein Air, Award: First Place Quick Draw

2023 Painted in Gloucester Plein Air Invitational, Virginia. Awards:  Second Place Quick Draw and Best Boat Painting

2023 Painted in Light House Plein Air Jupiter, Florida

2023 Participated in the Art Instructor's Symposium, Sicily, Itlay

2022 Published Splash 23: The Best of Watercolor (Honorable Mention)

2022 Accepted:  En Plein Air Texas

2022 Second Place Quick Draw:  Gloucester Plein Air Festival, Virginia

2022 Honorable Mention:  New Bern Plein Air, North Carolina 

2022 Second Place Quick Draw:  Savannah Plein Air 

2022 Best Spring Painting - Olmsted 200 Plein Air – Atlanta, Georgia 

2022 Exhibited: American Watercolor Society 155 International Exhibition, New York

2022 Signature Membership American Watercolor Society

2022 Accepted:  Atlanta’s Olmsted Plein Air

2021 Exhibited:  American Watercolor Society 154 International Exhibition

2021 Museum Purchase Award:  Beauty and Bounty, The Eastern Shore Plein Air Ag Collection

2021 Published: Plein Air Magazine:  Nuttin Better than Nutalls

2021 Best Architecture:  Gloucester Plein Air Festival, Virginia

2021 Best Architecture: Mountain Maryland Plein Air

2020 President:  South Carolina Watermedia Society

2020 Published/Authored:  Plein Air Magazine Feature Article:  Freezing the Sun

2019 Indira Das Memorial Award: Transparent Watercolor Society 

2019 Juried into En Plein Air Texas

2019 Juried into Cape Ann Plein Air, Massachusetts

2019 Best of Show – People’s Choice Award:   Sautee Plein Air Experience, Georgia 

2019 Published:  Splash 20: Best of Watercolor 

2019 Best Color Award:   Olmsted Plein Air  

2018 First Place Quick Draw and Artist’s Choice:  Plein Air Parrsboro, Nova Scotia:  

2017 Tilghman Island Artist’s Choice Award: Plein Air Easton, Maryland  

2016 John Singer Sargent Award:  Transparent Watercolor Society of America

2016 First Place Quick Draw: Mountain Maryland Plein Air  

2015 Exhibited: American Watercolor Society, New York