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Laurin McCracken NWS, AWS, LWS will be the juror
for the LWS 39th International Exhibit. Laurin McCracken is an
architect and the Chief Marketing Officer of Jacobs Global Buildings
NA. He has put the skills learned over the years in drawing,
photographing and observing to use as a watercolorist. He studied
with Gwen Bragg at the Art League School in Alexandria, Virginia and
with Alain Gavin at the Art Institute in Chicago. He has paintings
in corporate and private collections, including McGraw-Hill’s
Corporate Collection and the Urban Land Institute. He also has
photographs in the Graphics Arts Collection, Princeton University.
Born in Meridian, Mississippi, he holds a Bachelor of Arts and a
Bachelor of Architecture from Rice University and a Masters in
Architecture and Urban Planning from Princeton University. He is an
award-winning artist whose paintings have been exhibited in juried
shows coast to coast and has earned signature membership in 11
societies including LWS.
Artist Statement
“I interpret the real world through the medium of
watercolor. While I see things as a photographer, as a painter I am
able to use the medium as a tool to express how I see things. One of
my goals is to help people see everyday things in a new light.
My still life paintings are influenced by the Dutch and Flemish
still life painters of the 16th and 17th Century, such as Pieter
Claesz, Willem Kalf and Jan Davidz de Heem.”
