fine artist
EDUCATION
Self-Educated Artist
AWARDS
Current - 1988
Linda Movssesian Memorial Award for Humor Photography, North River Art Society Festival of the Arts, Marshfield, MA
2nd Place in Drawing/Mixed Media/Printmaking and Honorable Mention, 43rd Annual Pembroke Arts Festival, Pembroke, MA
1st Place in Drawing/Mixed Media/Printmaking; Honorable Mention, 41st Annual Pembroke Arts Festival, Pembroke, MA
Best in Show, Pembroke Arts Festival, Pembroke, MA
Best Representational, Plymouth Guild 39th Annual Juried Art Exhibit, Plymouth, MA
A.A. Wills Memorial Award for Drawing, North River Art Society 15th, 16th, 17th, and 30th Festival of the Arts Juried Exhibit, Marshfield, MA
Best in Show, Quincy Art Association, 4th Annual Quincy Arts Fest Juried Exhibit, at the Richard J. Koch Family Park & Recreation Complex, Quincy, MA
1st Place in Drawing & Pastel, South Shore Art Center 46th Annual Festival on the Common, Juried Exhibit, Cohasset, MA
Curator’s Choice-Silver Medal, 16th Annual “Almost Miniatures” Exhibit, Francesca Anderson Fine Art, Lexington, MA
Open Competition Prize, Concord Art Association “Farewell to the 20th Century” Juried Exhibit, Concord, MA
C.P.S.A. Award for Exceptional Merit, The 6th Annual International Colored Pencil Society of America Exhibition, Alexandria, VA
1st Place in Graphics, Mixed Media, Drawing & Computer Art, and The Carolyn B. Harvey Memorial Award for Creativity, North River Art Society 22nd Annual Festival of the Arts Juried Exhibit, Marshfield, MA
Award of Distinction, Rockport Publishers, Rockport, MA
2nd Place in Drawing & Pastel, South Shore Art Center Festival on the Common Juried Exhibit, Cohasset, MA
Best of Show, Plymouth Art Guild 30th Annual Juried Exhibit, Plymouth, MA
1st Place Drawing & Pastel, Plymouth Art Guild 29th Annual Juried Exhibit, Plymouth, MA
1st Place Drawing & Pastel, Cape Cod Art Association New England Juried Exhibit, Barnstable, MA
Summer Open Prize, Concord Art Association “Art Scene-Art Scene” Juried Exhibit, Concord, MA
Richard B. Fawcett Memorial Award for Humor, 26th North River Art Society Festival of the Arts Juried Exhibit, Marshfield, MA
2nd Place Drawing & Pastel, South Shore Art Center Festival on the Common Juried Exhibit, Cohasset, MA
Popular Vote, in the Category of Drawing, Print & Pastel, Duxbury Art Association 78th Midsummer Art & Craft Exhibit, Duxbury, MA
2nd Place Drawing & Pastel, Cape Cod Art Association New England Juried Exhibit, Barnstable, MA
1st Place, South Shore Art Center, Blue Ribbon Members Juried Exhibit, Cohasset, MA
3rd Place in Drawing & Pastel, South Shore Art Center, and 39th Festival on the Common Juried Exhibit, Cohasset, MA
1st Place Drawing & Pastel, 20th Duxbury Art Association 20th Annual Juried Exhibit, Duxbury, MA
1st Place and 2nd Place, South Shore Community Juried Art Exhibit, Braintree, MA
1st Place Drawing & Pastel, 26th Plymouth Art Guild Annual Juried Exhibit, Plymouth, MA
1st Prize, 26th Pembroke Arts Festival, Pembroke, MA
2nd Place Drawing & Pastel, South Shore Art Center Art Festival and Harborfest Juried Exhibit, Cohasset, MA
2nd Place, Weymouth Art Association, Spring Juried Exhibit, Tuffs Library, Weymouth, MA
1st Place Drawing & Pastel, Plymouth Art Guild 25th Annual Juried Exhibit, Plymouth, MA
Excellence in Drawing, 25th Pembroke Art Festival, Pembroke, MA
1st Place, South Shore Community Juried Art Exhibit, Braintree, MA
1st Place, Quincy Art Association South Shore Community Juried Exhibit, Braintree, MA
Popular Prize, 24th Pembroke Art Festival, Pembroke, MA
Excellence in Drawing, 23rd Pembroke Art Festival, Pembroke, MA
Special Award-Second Best in Show, and Honorable Mention, 34th South Shore Art Center Festival on the Common, Cohasset, MA
INTERNATIONAL & NATIONAL JURIED EXHIBITS
1997 -1993
CPSA Fifth International Colored Pencil Juried Exhibit at the Palette and Chisel Galleries, Chicago, IL
Pastel Society of America Inc., 25th Annual Juried Exhibit “For Pastel Only” National Arts Club Gallery, New York, NY
Colored Pencil Drawing, CPSA 4th International Colored Pencil Juried Exhibit at the Poway Center for the Arts, San Diego, CA
CPSA 3rd International Colored Pencil Juried Exhibit, Art at the Powerhouse, Cleveland, OH
Small Works, 94 Catskill Art Society National Exhibit, Sullivan County Art & Cultural Center, Hurleyville, NY
Springfield Art League 74th National Juried Exhibit Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA
Second Annual Masters of Colored Pencil National Exhibition, Massey Fine Arts, Santa Teresa, NM
SOLO EXHIBITS
1994 -1992
Fruits & Vegetables, North River Art Society Ventress Memorial Library, Marshfield, MA
Portraits, The Ladies Auxiliary Newton Wellesley Hospital, Waltham, MA
Pencil Portraits, Weymouth Art Association, Tuffs Library, Weymouth, MA
Family Portraits, Scituate Art Association Gallery, Scituate, MA
GROUP EXHIBITS
2000 -1996
16th Annual Almost Miniature, Francesca Anderson Fine Art, Lexington, MA
Artists for the 21st Century, Concord Art Association, Concord, MA
The Other Side, recent works by South Shore Art Center Faculty Artists, Cohasset, MA
Faculty Focus, Faculty Exhibit South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA
Faculty Feature, sponsored by the Duxbury Art Association at the Ellison for the Arts, Duxbury, MA
The Joy of Dance, sponsored by the Duxbury Art Association at the Ellison for the Arts, Duxbury, MA
Featured Faculty, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA
CORPORATE COMMISIONS
2011
Ferry Morse Seed Company® Fulton, KY
Commissioned to create packaging cover art for multiple organic seed packets.
2009
Ferry Morse Seed Company® Fulton, KY
Commissioned to create the packaging cover art for multiple heirloom seed packets.
Derwent® Cumberland Pencil Company in the United Kingdom,
Commissioned to create the packaging cover art for a new line of 24 graphic pencils.
BOOK PUBLICATIONS
2010 Signature Showcase, Colored Pencil Society of America
1999 The Best of Colored Pencil 5, Rockport Publishers, Rockport, MA
1998 Best of Sketching and Drawing, Rockport Publishers, Rockport, MA
1997 Portrait Inspirations, A Multi-Media Book of Portraits, Rockport Publishers, Rockport, MA
1996 Best of Colored Pencil 3, Rockport Publishers, Rockport, MA
NATIONAL PRESS
1999 Art New England Magazine ‘Artist for the 21st Century’ Concord Art Association
1998 American Artist Magazine ‘The Coming of Age of Colored Pencil’
1992 The Boston Globe Newspaper, 'Family Portraits' Scituate Art Association
1989 The Washington Post ‘Warm Texture-Dazzling Color’ Colored Pencil Society of America
LOCAL PRESS
2013 South Shore Living Magazine ‘Last Scene Here-Whimsical Garden’
2006 South Shore Living Magazine ‘Colored Pencil Comes of Age’
1997 Old Colony Memorial Newspaper ‘Guild Art Show Worth Finding’ Plymouth Art Guild
1997 Duxbury Mariner Newspaper ‘The Joy of Dance’ The Ellison Center for the Arts
1994 Scituate Mariner Newspaper ‘Fruits and Vegetables’ the North River Arts Society
1994 Patriot Ledger Newspaper ‘Fruits and Vegetables’ North River Art Society
1994 Duxbury Clipper Newspaper ‘Donna Basile Joins DAA Teaching Staff’
1993 The Patriot Ledger Newspaper ‘Scituate Woman Winner at Pembroke Arts Festival’
1992 The Weymouth Newspaper, ‘Color Pencil Portraits’ Weymouth Art Association
1991 Scituate Mariner Newspaper, 'New Gallery Artists Exhibit’ Scituate Art Association
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1999 - 1993 South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA
Adult Education Courses & Workshops (Beginner, Intermediate & Advanced)
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Introduction to Colored Pencil
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Technical Rendering in Colored Pencil
1998 Plymouth Art Guild Plymouth, MA
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Colored Pencil for Children
1997 - 1995 Duxbury Art Association, Duxbury, MA
Adult Education Courses & Workshops (Beginners, Intermediate & Advanced)
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Introduction to Colored Pencil
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Drawing in Black & White
SPECIAL PROJECTS
1997 Commissioned by the Selectman of Scituate and Town Planners to create an artist rendition of the Proposed Town Recreation Facility.