June Fisher-Markowitz

We are pleased to present our December Artist of the Month, June Fisher-Markowitz.  June is currently responsible for the beautiful, professional shows that our club presents each year, and we are very proud to feature her artwork this month. 

June is a NJ native, and currently lives in Wayne, NJ.  She has always had an interest in art, and studied painting and pottery and art education at William Paterson College.  She went on to pursue graduate work in painting, pottery and creative art therapies.  Most recently June is dedicated to working with watercolors, and has entered her work and won awards in various NJ  shows.  Most recently she had a painting accepted into the American Watercolor Society Associates show, and has been juried into the NJ Watercolor Society as a signature member.  

In her own words, June describes her approach to watercolor: "I have two favorite subjects.  First, trees and forests in various seasonal visual representations.  Second, old figurative photographs intrigue me as I reinvent the subject through color, texture and abstracted shape.  I can begin a painting with a simplified drawing, but I also enjoy starting without a drawing, creating something new by conversing with the tools of my craft-water, colors, wetting, spraying, salting...which is only finished when it feels right. I frequently complete a painting and I have no idea how I got there and will never be able to repeat the process again.  Each one is unique".