Elaine Hahn, a native of Kansas City, Missouri, holds a BA and MA in Art from the University of Missouri, and has studied with noted artists throughout the United States, England and Mexico. Her early career was influenced by her experience at Hallmark Cards in Kansas City. She is a Signature member of the Paint America Association Signature Society, the Florida Plein Air Society, a member of the Oil Painters of America, the American Impressionist Society and is a Signature member of the American Watercolor and the National Watercolor Societies. Her paintings have achieved prominence through acceptance and awards in major national juried exhibitions.
Her works are included in private and corporate collections throughout the United States. She has taught and conducted Workshops in the US and Europe and has served as a judge in Art Shows on the local, regional and national levels.
Her work has been published by Rockport Publishers in the Best of Watercolor and the Best of Florals. She was also a featured Artist in Watercolor Magic Magazine, published by Artist's Magazine, and in the U. S. Art Magazine-Introductions of 29 Artists Worthy of Collector's Attention. Her work has been included in the publications The Artistic Touch 3, by Creative Art Press, the Southeaster Framer Magazine, Splash 5: Best of Watercolor -The Glory of Color, Splash 6 – The Magic of Texture, and Splash 7 – The Qualities of Light, by North Light Books. In July 2005 she was a featured Artist in Décor Magazine’s Biography Series and the Marine Artist in the March 2006 issue of Art Business News. In 2007 she was included in the book Best of America-Watercolor by Kennedy Publishing Inc. In 2009 she was published as a finalist in the International Artist Magazine Landscape Challenge in the February-March issue. In 2010 she is one of ten artists profiled in The Artist Magazine March issue - Stellar At 60+.
She works from her studio on the Gulf of Mexico in Florida, where she focuses her efforts on developing and expanding her Oil painting techniques, capturing images of the beautiful coastal and marine subjects in the area, and traveling for painting and Plein Air Events throughout the United States and Europe.
Elaine’s images have also been selected through her Art Licensing Program by national firms in the manufacture of gift products including Christmas cards, magnets, notebooks, stationery, gift bags and many other products.
Honors and Awards
Honorable Mention, 11th Annual National Miniature Exhibition,
Renaissance Art Gallery, Huntington, WV, November 2011
Second Place Award, Still Life, Miniature Painters, Sculptors,& Gravers Society of
Washington, DC, 78th Annual Exhibition, North Bethesda, MD - November
2011
Finalist in the Artist
Magazine 28th Annual Art Competition, November 2011
Paint The Parks, 100
Competition, 2011 - Traveling Exhibit - Throughout 2011
Paint The Parks,
Mini 50 Competition, 2011 - Traveling Exhibit
- Throughout 2011
"Artist of the Month" for March by the Trekell Brush Co. -
March 2011
Paint America, 2010 Mini Top 50 Grand Prize Purchase Award,
Paint America Association, Topeka, Kansas, January 2011
Second Place Award, Human Figure,
36th Annual
International Miniature Art Show, Miniature Art Society of Florida, January
2011
Signature Membership, Paint America Signature Society - July 2010
Paint the Parks, Top 100 Competition, 2010
- Traveling Exhibit - Throughout 2010
Paint the Parks, Mini Top 50
Competition, 2010 - Traveling Exhibit - Throughout 2010
Paint America, Top 100
Competition, 2009 - Traveling Exhibit - Throughout 2010
Paint America, Mini Top 50
Competition, 2009 - Traveling Exhibit - Throughout 2010
Third Place, Artists Choice Award, Crescent
Beach Paint Out, Crescent Beach, FL – October 2009
Selected as One of the Top Fifty, Salon International, 2009
Juried Exhibit, Greenhouse Gallery, San Antonio TX – April 2009
Finalist in the International
Artist Magazine, Landscape Challenge #49, February - March 2009
Paint America, Mini Top 50
Competition, 2009 Traveling Exhibit - January 2009
Paint America, Second 100
Competition, 2009 – January 2009
First Place in Oil Painting,
Richeson 75 Landscape Competition, Kimberly Wisconsin - September 2008
Selected as a Judge in the
National 2008 Paint America, Paint the Parks Competition, - June
2008
Monthly Finalist in the Raymar Art
Competition, RaymarArt.com, Phoenix, AZ - July 2008
Monthly Finalist in the Raymar Art
Competition, RaymarArt.com, Phoenix, AZ - October 2008
Merit Award in Oil Painting,
Mainsail Arts Festival, St. Petersburg, FL - April 2008
Honorable Mention, Tampa Bay
Southshore Plein Air Festival, Ruskin, FL - March 2008
First Place, Quick Draw
Challenge, Tampa Bay SouthShore Plein Air Festival, Ruskin FL - March 2008
Merit Award in Oil Painting,
Mainsail Arts Festival, St. Petersburg, FL - April 2007
Poster Artist, Mainsail Arts
Festival, St. Petersburg, FL, - April 2006
Third Place, Punta Gorda Plein Air
Event, Punta Gorda, FL - February 2006
First Place,
Clearwater
Plein Air Paint Out Event,
Clearwater, FL - December 2006
Poster Artist, Artigras Arts
Festival, North Palm Beach, FL - February 2004
Third Place Award, Whale Head
Arts Festival, Corolla, NC - 2003
Award of Excellence, Gosport
Arts Festival, Portsmouth, VA - 2003
Second Place Watercolors, Under
the Oaks Arts Festival, Vero Beach, FL – March 2003
Merit Award, Mainsail Arts
Festival, St. Petersburg, FL – April 2002
Poster Artist, Naples
Invitational Arts Festival, Naples FL, - February 2002
Best of Show, Art in the Park
Arts Festival, Plantation, FL - 2001
Poster Artist, Coconut Grove
Arts Festival, Miami, FL – February 1996
Best of Show, Belgrade Arts
Festival, Richmond, VA - 1996
Events & Exhibitions
Florida Miniature Society of
Florida, 37th Annual International Art Show, Dunedin, FL –
January 2012
Miniature Painters, Sculptors,& Gravers Society of
Washington, DC, 78th Annual Exhibition, North Bethesda, MD - November - December, 2011
Renaissance Art Gallery, 11th Annual National Miniature Exhibition,
Huntington, WV - November - December 2011
Oil Painters of America
Eastern Regional Exhibit, Addison Art Gallery, Orleans, MA - Sept 17 – Oct
13, 2011
Paint The Parks, 100 Competition, 2011 - Traveling Exhibit - Throughout
2011
Paint The Parks,
Mini 50 Competition, 2011- Traveling Exhibit
- Throughout 2011
Plein Air Easton Competition,
Easton, MD - July 2011
Oil Painters of America, 20th Annual National
Juried Exhibition at Devin Galleries, Coeur d’Alene, ID June 10 thru July 9,
2011
9th Annual Sonoma Plein Air 2011, Plein Air Competition and Show, Sonoma,
CA - May 23 -27 2011
18th Annual Carmel Festival of the Arts,
Plein Air Competition, Carmel, CA – May 12-15, 2011
Twentieth
International Miniature Art Show,
Seaside Art Gallery, Nags Head, NC – April 30 – June 4 2011
Six Inch Square Exhibition, The Randy
Higbee Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA - April 16 - May 6, 2011
Callaway Gardens Plein Air Paint Out,
Callaway Gardens, Pine Mountain, GA - April 10-17, 2011
Salon
International 2011 Exhibit, Greenhouse Gallery of Fine Art, San Antonio,
Texas - April; 2 -22, 2011
Paint
America, Mini Top 50
Competition, 2010 - Traveling Exhibit - Throughout 2011
36th Annual
International Miniature Art Show - Dunedin Fine Art Center, Dunedin FL - January
9 - January 30, 2010
77th Annual
Exhibition of the Miniature Painters, Sculptors,& Gravers Society of Washington,
DC, North Bethesda, MD - November 21 - December 30, 2010
Florida Museum for Women Artists, First Annual Juried Exhibition, Deland,
FL - November 19, 2010 - February 6, 2011
Richeson 75 2010
Landscape Competition Exhibit, Richeson School of Art &
Gallery, Kimberly WI – November 1, 2010 - January 9, 2011
Canaveral Seashore Plein Air Paint Out,
Cape Canaveral FL - November 2010
American Women Artists 2010 National Juried Exhibition, Southwest
Gallery, Dallas, TX - October 9 - November 9, 2010
Oil Painters of America 2010
Easton Regional Exhibit, Walls Gallery, Wilmington, NC - October 15 -
November 13, 2010
Plein Air Easton Competition,
Easton, MD - July 2010
Paint the Parks, Top 100 Competition, 2010
- Traveling Exhibit - Throughout 2010
and 2011
Paint the Parks, Mini Top 50
Competition, 2010 - Traveling Exhibit - Throughout 2010 and 2011
Oil Painters of America, 19th
Annual National Juried Exhibition, Legacy Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ April 30 -
May31, 2010
Paint America, Top 100
Competition, 2009 - Traveling Exhibit - Throughout 2010
Paint America, Mini Top 50
Competition, 2009 - Traveling Exhibit - Throughout 2010
Richeson 75 Small Works
Exhibit 2010, Richeson School of Art & Gallery, Kimberly WI – April 2010
(Two pieces)
Wekiva
Plein Air Paint Out,
Wekiva Springs State Park, FL – March 2010
Thirty-Fifth Annual
International Miniature Art Show - Leepa-Ratner Museum of Art, Tarpon
Springs, FL - January 17 - February 7 2010
Oil Painters of America 2009
Easton Regional Exhibit, Corse Gallery, Jacksonville, FL - November -
December 23 2009,
American Impressionist Society 10th Annual Exhibition, Saks Gallery,
Denver, CO - October - November 2009
Crescent Beach
Paint Out,
Crescent Beach, FL – October 2009
Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art
Club 113th Annual Exhibition, National Arts Club, New York City, NY -
October 2009
Plein Air Easton
Competition,
Easton, MD - July 2009
Oil Painters of America, 18th
Annual National Juried Exhibition, Sage Gallery, Santa Fe, NM – May 2009
Art League of Hilton Head,
2009 National Juried Exhibition , Hilton Head, SC – May 2009
Salon International, 2009
Juried Exhibit, Greenhouse Gallery, San Antonio TX – April 2009
Plein Air in Florida Juried
Exhibition,
Museum of Florida Art & Culture, Avon Park, FL – April 2009
Solo Exhibit, “Watercolors
Revisited” Pasco-Hernando Community College, New Port Richey, FL - February
2009
Paint America, Mini Top 50
Competition, 2009 Traveling Exhibit – January 2009
Florida Miniature Society of Florida, Annual Art Exhibit,
Dunedin, FL – January 2009
Richeson 75 2009 Small Works
Exhibit, Richeson School of Art & Gallery, Kimberly WI – January 2009
Crescent Beach
Paint Out,
Crescent Beach, FL – October 2008
Richeson 75 2008
Landscape Competition, Richeson School of Art & Gallery, Kimberly WI – July
2008
Richeson 75 2008 Small Works
Exhibit, Richeson School of Art & Gallery, Kimberly WI – January 2008
Tampa Bay Southshore Plein Air
Festival,
Ruskin, FL - March 2008
Carmel Festival of the Arts,
Plein Air Competition, Carmel, CA – May 2007
Estes Park Plein Air Festival,
Estes Park CO, August – 2006
Oil Painters of America,
Eastern Regional Juried Exhibition, Richmond, VA - 2006
Plein Air Easton Competition,
Easton, MD - July 2005