Grotto Falls by Nelson Ziegler

Nelson Ziegler is the Art Market Gallery's featured artist for April - exhibiting both 2D work, (watercolors), and 3D - wood turning.

The opening of this exciting exhibit is set for the First Friday Reception, April 5, 2019, 5:30 - 9 p.m., at the Art Market Gallery.

Ziegler, of Sevierville, is a graduate of The Art Institute of Boston and Northwestern Academy of Watercolor.

His paintings and woodturnings have won many awards, both regionally and nationally. Among them, Gold Medal for watercolor at the American Artists Professional League, Honorable Mention - The Artist’s Magazine annual competition.

He was chosen the Spring Wildflower Pilgrimage artist of the year in 2016.

Ziegler has participated in numerous juried exhibitions in New York including Allied Artists, American Artists Professional League, Salmagundi Club, Knickerbocker Artists, National Arts Club, Hudson Valley Arts Association, as well as Adirondack National Watercolor Exhibition, Faces of America (a national watercolor portrait show), Academic Artists Association, Springfield Arts League, Springfield, MA, Guild of Boston Artists, Copley Society, Boston, MA, North Shore Arts Association, Gloucester, MA, Tennessee Watercolor Society and Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts.

He is a member of the National Watercolor Society, New England Watercolor Society, The Oil Painters of America, the Northshore Art Association and the American Association of Woodturners.

Nelson’s works are in many private and corporate collections throughout the country.