We are pleased to announce that painter, illustrator, and art instructor Eric Westbrook will be judging our fine art entries this year!
Eric lives and works in the Washington DC area. His current and former teaching venues include The Yellow Barn at Glen Echo, The Smithsonian, and VisArts in Rockville, MD. He is an experienced judge of art shows and competitions.
Eric’s landscape and portrait paintings are frequently exhibited in solo, and group shows and are held in public and private collections.
His illustrations have appeared in the publications of prominent corporate, government, and editorial clients nationwide. Eric received a Bachelor’s degree in art and design at the University of Maryland, College Park MD. His formal training in figure and portrait painting continued at the Art League School in Alexandria, VA, and the Washington Studio School in Washington, DC.
Eric Westbrook’s work has been described as an “art of observation”—a reference to the artist’s close observation of a subject, both for its surface details and for the structure and rhythm of its underlying forms. At the same time, the work itself repays observation: the more the viewer sits with it, the more what drew the artist to it in the first place is revealed.
His work can be viewed at ericwestbrook.com.