"Three Pears on White Cloth"  9 x 13 watercolor

Laurin McCracken  NWS                            

W A T E R C O L O R  S

 Laurin McCracken is the Chief Marketing Officer of Carter Burgess Engineers and Architects in Ft. Worth, Texas. He has recently put the skills learned over the years in drawing, photographing and observing to use as a watercolorist. He has paintings are 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 attended Auburn University and holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Architecture from Rice University and a Masters in Architecture and Urban Planning from Princeton University.  

McCracken is an award-winning artist whose paintings have been exhibited in juried shows coast to coast including the Philadelphia Watercolor Society, Niagara Frontier Watercolor Society, Pittsburgh Watercolor Society and the Adirondacks National Exhibition of American Watercolors, California Watercolor Society, Southern Watercolor Society, the American Watercolor Society , the Transparent Watercolor Society and the National Watercolor Society. He is a signature member of the National Watercolor Society, Southern Watercolor Society, Watercolor Society of Alabama, Texas Watercolor Society and the Philadelphia Watercolor Society. In the past two years his paintings have been selected for inclusion in more a dozen juried watercolor shows and have earned more than a dozen awards.

 His watercolors have been published in International Artist, American Artist, the Artist’s Magazine, Watercolor, Watercolor Magic and several books, including Splash 9.

 His work is represented by art4business, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and London, Jean Efron and Associates, Washington, DC, the Jack Meier Gallery, Houston, Texas, Southside Gallery, Oxford, MS and the Carlisle Gallery, Auburn, AL.

 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 painting is influenced by the Dutch and Flemish still life painters of the 16^th and 17^th Century, such as Pieter Claesz, Willem Kalf and Jan Davidz de Heem.”