Juried Exhibitions

      2004/ 24   Southeastern Wildlife Exposition - Charleston, SC  (FEATURED ARTIST 2008)
      2018/19     Plantation Wildlife Art Festival - Thomasville, GA
      2004/ 10    Waterfowl Festival - Easton, MD
      2006/ 13    Plantation Wildlife Art Festival - Thomasville, GA  
      2005          Bascom-Louise Gallery Juried Art Exhibit - Highands, NC
      2004          The American Southwest Art Exhibition - Reagan Memorial Library - Simi Valley, CA
      2003          Sixteenth American Contemporary Dog Art Competition - New York


Awards
     
     2008   25th Annual Aritstis's Magazine Art Competition - Finalist in the Animal Art Category
     2006   Wildlife Art Magazine Publisher's Award - Artists For The New Century,, Bennington, VT
     2006   Award of Merit - Bennington Center For The Arts - "Artists For The New Century"
     2005   22nd Annual Artist's Magazine Art Competition - Finalist in the Animal Art Category
     2005   First Place People's Choice Award - Summer Colors Fine Art Show - Highlands, NC        
     2003   Best of Show - Wildlife Art Festival of North Georgia - Blue Ridge, GA
        
Memberships

      Oil Painters of America (Assoc)
      Artists For Conservation (AFC)
Education

      2019    Study with artist Jen Garrini
      2014    Study with artist Greg Beecham
      2004    Study with artist Dave Wade
      2000 - 2002  Atlanta College of Art
      2002   Study with artist John Banovich
      1984   BSBA - Auburn University



RESUME
Invitationals

      2016        Portraits Inc. - Love Me, Love My Dog - New York, NY
      2011/12    Night Of Artists, Briscoe Museum- San Antonio, TX  
      2010        Art Of The Animal Kingdom XV - Bennington Center For The Arts - Bennington, VT
      2008        Art Of The Animal Kingdom XIII - Bennington Center For The Arts - Bennington, VT
      2006        Artists For The New Century - Bennington Center For The Arts - Bennington, VT
      2006        Out Of Africa - Bascom Louise Gallery - Highlands, NC
      2005        One Man Show - The Summer House - Highlands, NC
      2004       12th Annual Southeast Invitational Miniature Show - Germanton Gallery, Germanton, NC

Publications


    2024    Porch & Prairie - Spring 2024 - Fins, Feathers, And The Finest Of Art
    2022/23   Copley Sporting Sale Catalog 
    2023    Upland Almanac - Spring 2023
    2023    Gray's Sporting Journal - Front Cover - May/June 2023
    2020    Gray's Sporting Journal - Front Cover - Nov 2020
    2019    Gray's Sporting Journal - Christmas Eve - Image - Aug/Sept 2019
    2019    Gray's Sporting Journal - Front Cover - May/June 2019
    2018    Double Gun Journal - My Life As A Sporting Artist - Winter 2018
    2017    Gray's Sporting Journal - Back Cover- Sept/Oct 2017
    2016    Gray's Sporting Journal - Front Cover - May/June 2016
    2015    Quail Forever -Winter 2016 - Ga Di Lane Wildlife Management
    2015    Upland Almanac - Winter 2015 - Days End2015    
    2015    Shooting Sportsman - Illustration - April/May 2015
    2015    Upland Almanac - Days End - Summer 2015
    2014    Grays Sporting Journal - Back cover - August 2014
    2011     The Sporting Shot-Volume 8 - December 2011
    2011     Pheasants Forever - Cover (Summer 2011)
    2010     Southwest Art Magazine - Art Values (Aug 2010)
    2010     Garden & Gun Newsletter -"Art Gone Wild" Feb 2010  www.garden&gun.com
    2010     NRA American Hunter Online Magazine - "Artist Peggy Watkins"  Feb 2010
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    2009      Shooting Sportsman Magazine - Illustration  "The Backup Dog" (May/June 2009)
    2008      Southwest Art Magazine - Jungle Fever (Feb 2008)
    2008      Field Trial Magaine - Cover and article (Summer 2008)
    2008      QuaiForever Magazine - Illustration  (Summer 2008)
    2007      Sporting Classics Magazine - Auctions and Exhibitions, Wildlife Expo (Nov/Dec 2007)
    2007      Wildlife Art Magazine - Artists For The Next Generation
    2006      Wildlife Art Magazine -Bennington Show - Artists For The New Century    
    2006      LaureMagazine - Cover and article  (Jan 2006) 
    2005      Covey Rise - The Art Of Peggy Watkins (Aug. 2005)
    2005      Wildlife Art Magazine  - Natures Way - Cheetah

Museum Collections

     Bennington Center For The Arts - Bennington, VT
     
Other

Citadel - Charleston, SC - Lecture on The Art Of Peggy Watkins
Federal National Duck Stamp Judge - 2019
Federal Junior Duck Stamp Judge - 2017   
The Canadian Wildlife Conservation Stamp - Yukon Territory 2008
Books

     2012   The Lectures of Her Higness Princess Takamado - published by Osaka University
     2009   Strokes Of Genius 2 - published by Northlight Books
     2009   Best Of America Oil Artists Volume II - published by Kennedy Publishing