Collection: Jill McGannon

Jill Schultz McGannon completed her BFA and MFA at the University of Georgia in 1985 and 1988, and has worked as a full-time artist for 35 years. Her plein air and large-scale studio paintings can be seen at Reinert Fine Art in Charleston, SC, Four Corners Gallery in Bluffton, SC, High Country Art in Blue Ridge, GA, Mason Fine Art in Atlanta, GA and Addington Gallery in Chicago, IL.  She paints in oils in a painterly realistic style, preferring to work from life whenever possible. She started painting plein air in Cortona, Italy in 1995 when she was Artist in Residence on the UGA Studies Abroad Program, and continued painting plein air in coastal SC and GA upon returning home. She has won first place at four plein air events in the last two years, and was accepted into five  NOAPS (National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society) and four OPA (Oil Painters of America) shows since 2021. She has won three awards in the Plein Air magazine Salon in the last three years, and was featured in International Artist Magazine in January of 2023 in their Best Landscapes contest.

 

 

"Up before dawn, I’m standing on the edge of the marsh with the sun coming up, bathing the tops of the trees with a warm glow.  There’s a cool cast shadow on the marsh grass, and it’s all reflected in the water.  The quiet is broken only by an egret fishing nearby.  I try to paint slow enough to get the drawing, values, and color right, but fast enough to finish the painting before the light changes. Every now and then my concentration is broken by a squirrel or heron. The light has changed now, but I’m finished.  I leave with my painting and a sense of satisfaction.  I’ve learned something new today, some subtle color or value change, or drawing correction that I didn’t notice the last time I painted plein air.  I never tire of trying to capture the magical beauty of light."    

 

Plein air Awards

2023 Invited Artist, Olmsted Plein Air, Atlanta, GA

           Best Atmosphere at Blowing Rock Plein Air, BRAHM, Blowing Rock, NC

           First Place, Paint the Town Plein Air, Alpharetta Arts Center, Alpharetta, GA

 

2022 First Place at GA Colors Paint Quick for the Community Artists, Chateau Elan, Braselton, GA

           First Place at Blue Ridge Mountain Arts Plein Air, Blue Ridge, GA

           First Place at Sautee Nacoochee Plein Air, Sautee Nacoochee, GA

           Invited artist, Olmsted Plein Air, Atlanta, GA

           Invited Artist, Plein Air New Bern, New Bern, NC

 

2021 First Place in the Paint Quick, Georgia Colors, St. Simons Island, GA

 

2020

         Third Place in the Community Quick Paint at Olmsted Plein Air, Atlanta, GA

         Runner up in the Quick Paint at Gilmer Arts' Plein Air- Art in the Mountains, Ellijay, GA

2019 

          First Place in the Quick Paint at Gilmer Arts' Plein Air- Art in the Mountains, Ellijay, GA

          Second Place at Paint Duluth 4, in Duluth, GA

          Second Place at the Olmsted PaintQuick Community Award, Atlanta, GA

2018 People's Choice Award, and Award of Merit at Paint Duluth 3, Duluth, GA

2015 First Place in Quick Paint at Gilmer Arts' Plein Air- Art at the Vineyard, Ellijay, GA

2014, 2013, 2012 Second Place, Gwinnet Parks Plein air at Tannery Row Artists Colony, Buford, GA     

2012 Best in Show, Madison Arts Guild, Madison, GA 

 

Show Awards

2023 One of Eight Finalists in the Annual Landscape contest for International Artist Magazine, Dec 2022/ Jan 2023 issue

2022 First Place winner of Best Clouds & Sky in the July/ August 2022 Plein Air Salon Art Competition for Plein Air Magazine,                              and Semi Finalist in the 2022 competition.

2021 First Place winner of Best Sunset or Nocturne in the July/ August 2021 Plein Air Salon Art Competition for Plein Air Magazine,                 and Semi Finalist in the 2022 competition.

         Landscape Finalist in Art Renewal Center Salon

2020 First place winner of "Best Water" category in the Dec/ Jan 2020 Plein Air Salon Art Competition for Plein Air Magazine

2019 Art Muse-One of 5 of the Emerging Artist Finalists and selected by the owner of Jack Meier Gallery as the September Gallery                           Representation Finalist.

2018 Featured Artist at Gala 2018 at Quinlan Visual Arts Center, Gainesville, GA

2014, 2015  Award of Merit at Historic Honeyhorn Artists Market, Hilton Head Island, SC

2010 First Place, Arts on the Creek, Johns Creek Arts Center, Johns Creek, GA

 

Acceptance into National Group Shows

2023 OPA (Oil Painters of America) Eastern Regional Exhibition, Sept. 14-Oct. 15. Beverly McNeil Gallery, Birmingham, AL

           OPA National Exhibition,  Reinert Fine Art, Charleston, SC 

            NOAPS (National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society), Best of America International Exhibition, Principle Gallery, Alexandria, VA

            NOAPS, Best of America Small Works International Juried Exhibition, Mary Williams Fine Art, Boulder, CO

2022  NOAPS Best of America, Wilcox Gallery, Jackson, WY

           NOAPS Best of America Small Works, Beverly McNeil Gallery, Birmingham, AL

           OPA Eastern, James R Ross Fine Art, Indianapolis, IN

2021  OPA (Oil Painters of America) National Exhibition, Escondido, CA

           NOAPS (National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society), Best of America Nat'l Small Works Show, Principle Gallery, Charleston, SC

           NOAPS, Spring 2021 International Online Exhibition 

           AWA (American Women Artists) Lifting the Sky

          Group show with Marc Hanson and Stephanie Amato at Four Corners Gallery, Bluffton, SC

2020  Group Show, Four Corners Gallery, Bluffton, SC

           Richeson Small Works Exhibition

           Mason Fine Art, Realism Show, June 2020

          Terra Chroma, Addington Gallery, Chicago, IL

2019 NOAPS Fall International Online Exhibit                                                                                                                                                                               OPA Eastern Regional Show for Oil Painters of America

           Meritorious, Richeson 75 Still Life and Floral Competition

2018  Eastern League of Professional Artists at the Quinlan Arts Center, Gainesville, GA

2017  Eastern League of Professional Artists at the Blue Ridge Mountain Arts Center in Blue Ridge, GA

2015  Oil Painters of America (OPA) Eastern Regional Exhibition

2015  National Juried Online show for American Women Artists (AWA)

2015, 2016, 2017,  National Juried Exhibition for Women Painters of the Southeast (WPSE)