HONORS
Marquis’ Who’s Who in America 2000-2008
Marquis’ Who’s Who in the World 2000-2007
Featured Artist - Virginia Living Museum’s Wildlife
Art Festival 2003
AWARDS
First Place -2007 Fells Point Art Gallery
Third Place - 2007 Artists Gallery, Virginia Beach
Honorable Mention - 2007 South Texas Miniature Art Society
Third Place , animal division — 2006 N. California Society of Art in Miniature Art Exhibition
Honorable
Mention— 2006 North American Miniature Art Exhibition, Art Gallery of Fells Point
Award of Merit—2006 International Florida Miniature
Art Show
Honorable Mention— 2005 Vienna Arts Society, Inc.
First Place Oils — 2005 North American Miniature Art Exhibition, Art Gallery
of Fells Point
Award of Merit for Exceptional ability and Achievement in Art of Miniature Painting/Oil 2005 Miniature Art Society of New Jersey.
Award of Merit - 2005 Paper Mill International Miniature Art Exhibition
Third Place— 2004 International
Florida Miniature Art Show Miniature Painters, Sculptures and Gravers Society of Washington, D.C., Associate
Miniature Artists of America,
Associate
Hampton Arts LeagueGALLERIES
Back Bay Wildfowl Guild
BOOKS ILLUSTRATED
2007 “Beguiling Bundle” Cover
2004 “Paw Prints Through
the Years” short stories
2000 “Pawprints on My Heart” short stories
1984 “The Lakeland Terrier”
MEMBERSHIPS
Miniature Art Society of Florida
Miniature
Artists of America
Seaside Art Gallery: www.seasideart.com
Atlantic Wildfowl Heritage Museum: www.AWHM.org
Stanford
University: artist-registry.stanford.edu
ADDITIONAL EXHIBITIONS
2007-2001 Seaside Art Gallery International Miniature Art Show
2007 El
Dorado Fine Arts Gallery Miniature Show
2007 Parklane Gallery
2004-2006 Miniature Painters, Sculptors & Gravers Soc. Of Wash. D.C.
2004
Hampton Bay Days
2004 International World Federation of Miniaturists at the Smithsonian Institute
1997 “Birds in Art” 1996 “Wildlife
the Artist’s View” Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum
PRODUCTS
Ducks Unlimited— Tee Shirts 2000 to present
Colorful Canines— Dog Flags
Bev Abbott’s Biography
I have been honored with selection for inclusion into Marquis’ Who’s
Who in America 2000-2008 and Who's Who in American Women 2000-2007 and Who’s Who in the World 2001-2007. I was accepted as a
"Signature Member" in 2008 in the Miniature Artists of America.
At the March 2006 the Northern California Society of Art in Miniature
Exhibition held at the Sierra Artist Gallery “Macaws in the Clouded Rainforest” was awarded Third Place in the Animal Division.
All
four entries were accepted into “Art in Miniature” sponsored by the Vienna Arts Society, Inc. 2005. The oil painting “Brown
Bear Amble” received Honorable Mention. There were three oil paintings on exhibit at the 23rd Annual North American Miniature Art
Exhibition 2006 at the Art Gallery of Fells Point with the painting “Iris Reflections” receiving Honorable Mention and in 2007 "Foggy
Dawn" received a First Place in oils. There were three oil paintings on exhibit at the 22nd Annual North American Miniature Art Exhibition
2005 at the Art Gallery of Fells Point with the painting “Resting Wolf” receiving First Place in Oils. All five entries were
accepted into the 2005 Miniature Art Society of New Jersey Art Show held at the World Fine Art Gallery in New York, N. Y. and received
the Award of Merit for exceptional ability and achieved outstanding recognition in Art of Miniature Painting/Oil.
All three entries
were accepted for exhibit at the Miniature Painters, Sculptors and Gravers Society of Washington, D.C. for the 2007, 2006, 2005
and 2004 show at the Strathmore Hall Arts Center, N. Bethesda, MD. The oil painting “Evening Encounter” was exhibited in the
2004 Hampton Bay Days Art Show held at The Charles H. Taylor Art Center, Hampton, VA.
All five entries were accepted for the 2006 International
Florida Miniature Art Show with “Pair of Rhino’s Sleeping” receiving an Award of Merit. The miniature painting “Swimming Polar
Bear” received third place in the animal and bird category in the 2004 International Florida Miniature Art Show. The World Federation
of Miniaturists sponsored an international show at The Smithsonian Institute in June 2004 where I had two miniature paintings on exhibit.
In 2008, three miniatures will be on exhibit in Tasmania, Australia sponsored by the World Federation of Miniaturists. Ten of
my miniatures were accepted for exhibit at the Paper Mill International Miniature Art Exhibition in 2004 and 2005 with “Future Greatness-colt”
receiving an Award of Merit in 2005.
I was selected to be the Featured Artist at The Virginia Living Museum’s Wildlife Art Festival
January 18 & 19, 2003 in Newport News, VA. Four paintings were juried into the Twenty-eighth Annual International Miniature
Art Show for the Jan. 19-Feb.2, 2003 exhibit held at the Gulf Coast Museum of Art, Largo, FL. You may view additional
examples of my art on internet addresses – at www.seasideart.com (art gallery), and artist-registry.stanford.edu. Each site
contains different subject matter for your enjoyment.
In 2004, the book “Paw Prints through the Years” was published with full color
reproductions of my oil or acrylic paintings of Papillons featured in the short stories as well as a full color dust cover. In 2000, I illustrated “Pawprints on My Heart” a book of pet short stories written by 22 different authors and published by Astra
Publishers. Each story is decorated with one or two pen and ink drawings pertaining to the animals in the stories. The full
color dust jacket is from an original oil painting of three Papillons pups and their mother.
The acrylic painting “Egret’s in the Mist”,
a scene from the Great Dismal Swamp, was juried into the “Birds in Art” 1997 at the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum in Wausau, WI. Also in 1997, two paintings, The Buoy’s Club” and “Swan Serenity” was selected for exhibit during “Hampton Bay Days” at the Charles
H. Taylor Arts Center, Hampton, VA.
In April 1996 an oil painting “The Buoy’s Club” Stellar sea lions was juried into the prestigious triennial international show “Wildlife: the Artist’s View” sponsored by The Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI. During the fall 1996 “The Buoy’s Club was juried into National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society annual show in Osage Beach, MO.