My oil painting of Absinthe Drinker “Eduardo Gautier” won the Merit Award, Best in Figurative Paintings  AND the one of the Jury’s “Top Sixty” at the Salon International Exhibit this weekend. The annual juried show opened on April 10 at the Greenhouse Gallery in San Antonio, Texas. The piece was selected by judge Everett Raymond Kinstler as the best in the Figurative Painting category out of 386 juried entries. Jurors for the exhibit awarded 60 of their favorites from over 1,300 entries. Click here to view the entire exhibit.

“Eduardo Gautier” represents the exciting energy behind all those involved in my husband John Charles Jopson’s film project, The Absinthe Drinkers. The setting for the painting was created in my studio, Atelier Il Corvo Di Loro in Tuscany.

Many thanks to Production Designer Mirco Rocchi, for costumes and props, and of course tanti grazie to our model for “Gautier”, Actor Gaetano Guarino.

“Eduardo Gautier” is available for purchase through the Greenhouse Gallery.

Update May 1, 2010: “Eduardo Gautier” has been sold.