2010 Valle del Sur Open Juried Show Awards
(won by gallery members, Judge Kim Fancher Lordier, awarded 20 November 2010)
Best of Show : Laurie Barmore, All Lines Lead to Here
Photography
1st: Satu Viitanen, Hues in Pollen
2st: Lance Trott, El Capitan Early Spring
Hon Mention: Susan Dillon Fletcher, Baptistry Beggars, Florence
Oil Painting
2st: Karen S. Garnett, Coyote Creek Trees
Hon Mention: Lorna Saiki, Late Afternoon at the Creek
Acrylic Painting
1st: Karen S. Garnett, Bay Gray I
2rd: Laurie Barmore, Emptiness Precedes Fullness

Karen Garnett
October 8, 2010: Artists' Choice Award for Garrapata Rocks and Pool. MBPAPA Monterey Tapestry Exhibit, Natividad Medical Center, Salinas, CA.

CJ Myers
Sept. 18, 2010: 24" x 30" oil portrait of a retired doctor from Oregon health and Science University received a standing ovation at unveiling gala in Portland, Oregon!
August, 2010: 3rd place, First Competition PaintCut in Burlingame, CA
March, 2010: 1st place/pastel, 50th Spring Annual Art Show at Woodbridge Winery in Lodi, CA

(won by Gallery Morgan Hill Artists
Judges Paul Figueroa and Jodi Throckmorton, October 17, 2009)
Photography
1st & Purchase: Satu Viitanen, The Work Bench I
Hon Mention: Susan Dillon Fletcher, Yangtze Boatman
Hon Mention: Satu Viitanen, Ornamental Wall
Painting
1st Karen Garnett, Soberanes Point, Big Sur
Hon Mention: Lorna Saiki, Casa Loma Park
Hon Mention: Satu Viitanen, Summer Vase

(won by Gallery Morgan Hill Artists
Judges artist members of Valle del Sur Art Guild, awarded December, 2009)
1st: Karen Garnett
2nd: Lance Trott
3rd tie: Laurie Barmore & Satu Viitanen

(won by Gallery Morgan Hill artists
Judge George Rivera, awarded August 19, 2009)
Photography
1st: Lance Trott, Yosemite Falls Autumn
Hon Mention: Satu Viitanen, Rainy Day at the Opera
Oil Painting
3rd Lorna Saiki, Pelican Point
Hon Mention: Mary Hiller, Low Tide at Sunset
Acrylic Painting
2nd: Karen Garnett, Twilight at Rocky Point
3rd: Lance Trott, Bridalveil
Hon Mention: Laurie Barmore, Petroglyphs of Symbiosis
Hon Mention: Karen Garnett, Rocks in Whalers Cove
Hon Mention: Lance Trott, Grand Canyon Light
Hon Mention: Satu Viitanen, Autumn Bouquet
Paper and Silk Painting
1st: Cheryl J. Myers, Cynthia, pastel
2nd: Cheryl J. Myers, Enjoy the Ride, pastel
Hon Mention: Cheryl J. Myers, What'll You Have, pastel

(won by Gallery Morgan Hill Artists
awarded June, 2009)
Photography
Award of Excellence: Susan Dillon Fletcher , Yantze Boatman
Award of Merit: Satu Viitanen, Stockholm Sunrise 7:41am