"The Very Moment" by Dawn Whitelaw

* Original oil painting on linen on panel //   Estimated value = $1,100

* Total dimensions (unframed) = 12 x12 inches

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Artist Bio

Dawn Whitelaw is one of the artists in On Track Studios in Franklin, Tennessee. Painting plein air with colleagues in Plein Air Painters of the Southeast and The Chestnut Group adds richness and honesty to her studio work.

Whitelaw is currently on the board of the Portrait Society of  America where she serves as vice-chair. She has also been featured as faculty for Plein Air South and the Plein Air Convention and Expo. In 2016, the American Impressionist Society elected her to Master status. Whitelaw was one of ten American women artists invited to exhibit in "Inspiring Figures" at the Butler Institute of American Art. She has a painting in the permanent collection of the Rahr-west Art Museum.

Most of Whitelaw's formal instruction came from a long-term mentorship with New York painter, Everett Raymond Kinstler. She graduated from David Lipscomb University with a BA. After her graduation, she served as an adjunct teacher in the Art Department for over 30 years.