I like to paint in watercolors or acrylics on board, acrylics on canvas, and also mixed media on paper and canvas and collage on canvas.
  
Art Training: From 1959 to 1976, classes in art at the Edmonton Art Gallery, University of Alberta Extension Department.  1978 to 1981 private classes from Jean Richards in watercolors of the prairies.  From 1985 to 2001 numerous workshops with well known artists such as George Weber, Brian Ateyo, Harold Olsen, and Kiff Holand.  2002 – acrylic painting classes at the Extension Department of the University of Alberta.  2008 –
Registered in the Certificate Program at the Extension Department of the U. of A.

Memberships:   S.W.C.A. – Society of Western Canadian Artists (formerly Federation of Canadian Artists) – Active Member since 1986, W.E.C.AN. – Where Edmonton Community Artist Network since 1989, Edmonton Art Club since 1995, and Visual Artists Association of Alberta since 2003.

Gallery Representation:   Johnson Gallery

Gift Shops Carried:    Art Gallery of Alberta Gift Shop (temporarily closed) ,  Hotel Macdonald Gift Shop, Royal Alberta Museum Shop.

Selected Exhibitions:  Solo:  Muttart Conservatory – 1999; Front Room Gallery at Harcourt House October 12 to November 10, 2006; Homefire Grill, May – June, 2009
Two Person:  Jeff Allen Gallery, Strathcona Place Center – 2002;Homefire Grill,May-June,2010.  Three Person:  Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital, Mezanine Gallery - 2008
Group:  Since  1989 exhibited at W.E.C.A.N  members annual show at  Harcourt House Gallery.  Since 1995 exhibited regularly with the Edmonton Art Club.  

Bibliography:  Comment by Charles Mandel in the Edmonton Journal, June 7, 1996, Page D7.

Commissions:  1998 – Lithograph Prints of City Hall, Muttart Conservatory and High Level Bridge in the rooms of the Edmonton/Ramada Inn.
1999 – Edmonton Downtown Cityscape Prints – copies presented to the speakers for the Edmonton Executives Association in Edmonton.
2004 – Edmonton Downtown Cityscape Notecard – copies presented to each delegate attending the AGM in Edmonton of the National Council of Women of Canada.

Awards:  1997 – received 2nd Place for a watercolor of an orchid in the amateur division of  the Orchid Society’s Annual Show at the Muttart Conservatory.  2008 -  $1,000 Mildred Nelson Scholarship from the Edmonton Art Club.

Collections:  Various private collections of Edmontonians and tourists to Edmonton.

Email:jpopham61@shaw.ca

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Pink Flower, Monet's Gardens
11 x 15
(watercolor) $300.