Robin Purcell has earned Signature membership in both the American Watercolor Society and the National Watercolor Society. She also is an Artist member of the California Art Club.

Artist Statement
California has always been a mythic land of sunshine that stirred my imagination. A fortunate set of influences helped me arrive at my own style of interpreting the California Landscape. I was probably permanently warped by doing paint by numbers as a child. I fell hard for the work of the early California Impressionists, particularly Granville Redmond and William Wendt. Their work helped me to see the landscape as shapes. It is much easier for me to control hard edges with watercolor while painting outdoors. These factors led me to develop a style that simplifies what I see and organizes it into shimmering patches of color. I am a Plein Air Painter who goes outside to see colors and shapes from life so that I can change them in ways feel true to me and express my personal artistic vision.

Selected Recent Events and Exhibits

American Watercolor Society 144th,143rd ,142nd Annual International Exhibitions
California Art Club's 101st and 100th Annual Gold Medal Juried Exhibitions
California Watercolor Association 41st National Exhibit, the Presidio San Francisco, CA
Carmel Art Festival 2006 to 2010
Landscape with a Modern Edge Exhibit at the Newberry Gallery Santa Monica
On Location in Malibu :California Art Club Paintings at the Frederick R. Weisman Museum, Pepperdine
Santa Cruz Art League, Annual Statewide Exhibit of Contemporary Landscape Painters: Third Prize Watercolor ,78th Statewide Exhibit , Jean Stern juror .First Prize Watercolor, 79th Annual Statewide Exhibit of Contemporary Landscape Painters, juror Kevin MacPherson, 3rd Prize Watercolor at the 80th Statewide Exhibit, juror Richard Mayhew, 81st Statewide Landscape Exhibit, Scott A Shields, Juror
Sonoma Plein Air 2007 to 2010