A full-time artist since 2001, Brenda Beck Fisher has lived in Missouri most her life.

The recipient of many local and national awards, she is a signature member of the Missouri Watercolor Society, Southern Watercolor Society, Watercolor Society of Alabama, Red River Watercolor Society and a juried member of Best of Missouri Hands.

She has participated in national shows and her work has been featured in local and state magazine publications and in Nashville Arts magazine. Her work has been featured on numerous years of Hannibal’s Annual Historic Folklife Festival poster and has been used on a West Winery wine label and Southgate’s chili can. Her painting, “Opaque Glass, Transparent Watercolor”, was featured on a highway billboard in the first annual billboard contest sponsored by the Hannibal Arts Council.

Brenda’s watercolors are permanently displayed at Western Illinois University in Macomb, Illinois, Dot Foods Headquarters, Quincy City Hall, Quincy, Illinois, Hannibal Clinic and Hannibal National Bank in Hannibal, Missouri and at the Hannibal Regional Medical Group Vision Institute and Hannibal Regional Hospital.

In 2016, Brenda was commissioned to illustrate over 35 watercolors for display in the newly remodeled Becky Thatcher Museum in Hannibal, Missouri. Brenda has illustrated the children’s books, My Tractor and Me, by Mia Pennewell and TheWhite Horse, by Eli Goodman, MD.

Awards

2007 – Columbia, MO. “Men in the Morning”

2007 – Third Place, Prairie Days Exhibit, Vandalia, MO.

2007 – First Place Glassed Painting, 33rd Art Exhibit and Competition, Clarksville, MO

2007 – Dyno Nobel Purchase Award, 33rd Art Exhibit and Competition, Clarksville, Mo. “Siew’s Penguins”

2008 – Honorable Mention, The Municipal Art League of Chicago’s Biennial-Midwest Fine Art Competition And Exhibition, Chicago, Illinois. “Waiting”

2008 – Merit Award, Midsummer Arts Faire, Quincy, Illinois. “Incoming Tide”

2008 – Second Place, Best of Missouri Hands Exhibit, “Celebrating Creativity,” William Woods University, Fulton, Missouri

2008 – Excellence in Creativity – Best of Missouri Hands Exhibit “Celebrating Creativity” – William Woods University, Fulton, Missouri

2008 – Best Of Show, Gazebo Art Festival, Macomb, Illinois

2008 – Purchase Award for “Clear Water”, Western Illinois University Art Gallery, Gazebo Art Festival, Macomb, llinois

2008 – Great River Watercolor Society Water Media Award, Professional Division, Originale I, Hannibal, Missouri

2008 – Artist Award, Hannibal Arts Council Annual Paragon Awards

2008 – First Place Glassed Division, Clarksville Exhibit and Competition, Clarksville, Missouri

2008 – Great River Watercolor Society Award, Clarksville Exhibit and Competition, Clarksville, Missouri

2009 – Merit Award for Mango Girl graphite drawing, Originale II Fine Art Division, Hannibal, Missouri

2009 – Southern Watercolor Society’s 32nd Annual Exhibition, Columbus, Georgia – Afternoon Shadows at Les Bourgeois

2009 – Second Place in Children’s Gallery, Sixth Annual Midsummer Arts Faire, Quincy, Illinois

2009 – Achievement in Art Award, Sixth Annual Midsummer Arts Faire, Quincy, Illinois. “Oh Christmas Tree”

2009 – Third Place, Missouri Watercolor Society Member’s Invitational, Columbia, MO. “All American Boy”

2009 – Merit Award, Originale I, Hannibal, MO. “Opaque Glass in Transparent Watercolor”

2010 – People’s Choice Award, Arts by the River, Cape Girardeau, Missouri

2010 – Best of Show, City of Quincy Purchase Award, Midsummer Arts Faire. “The Weaver”

2010 – Guerilla Painter Merit Award, 41st Annual River Road Show, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. “Incoming Tide”

2011- Great River Watercolor Society Award, Midsummer Arts Faire, Quincy, IL, “Nature’s Wallpaper”

2011 – Winsor & Newton Award, Missouri Watercolor Society Member’s Invitational, Columbia, Missouri

2011 – First Place-Gazebo Art Festival, Macomb, Illinois

2011 – Honorable Mentions, Hannibal Art Club Annual Exhibit and Competition’s Originale, “Dusk” and “Fox in the Woods”

2012 – Honorable Mention, Mary S. Oakley and Lee Lindsay Artists Showcase, Quincy Art Center, Quincy, Illinois, “Reflections”

2012 – Great River Watercolor Society Award, Midsummer Arts Fair. Quincy, Illinois. “Jungle Fever”

2012 – 1st Place, Palmyra Art Show, Palmyra, Missouri. “Dusk”

2012 – Honorable Mention, Palmyra Art Show, Palmyra, Missouri. “Dried Hydrangeas”

2012 – Best of Show, 2nd Annual Jacksonville Fine Art Show, Jacksonville, Illinois

2012 – First Place, Adult Division, 38th Annual Art Exhibit and Competition, Clarksville, MO

2012 – Honorable Mention, Adult Division, 38th Annual Art Exhibit and Competition, Clarksville, MO

2013 – Kansas Watercolor Society National Exhibition, The Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, Kansas. “Turnip Table” and “Cabbage Patch”

2013 – Award of Excellence and Second Place in Quincy Artists’ Guild Young Collectors Gallery, Midsummer Arts Faire, Quincy, Illinois

2014 – First Place Quincy Artists Guild Young Collectors Gallery and Great River Watercolor Society Award, Midsummer Arts Faire, Quincy, Illinois

2014- Billboard Art Competition, Hannibal Missouri area. “Opaque Glass, Transparent Watercolor”

2015 – Holbein Watercolor Set Award, Montana Watercolor Society’s Watermedia Exhibit, Montana

2016 – Merit Award, Originale`, Hannibal, Missouri. “Permarust”

2017 – Great River Watercolor Society Award – Q-Fest, Quincy, Illinois

2017 – Farmers & merchants Bank Award of Excellence, “Glorious Gourds” and Steven Viorel Merit Award, “Winter’s Harbingers”, Hannibal Art Club’s Originale`, Hannibal Arts Council, Hannibal, Missouri

Exhibits

2002 – Solo Exhibit – Hannibal LaGrange College, Hannibal, MO

2003 – Missouri Nationals Juried Exhibition, Missouri Watercolor Society, Fulton, MO

2003 – Solo Exhibit – Hannibal Arts Council, Hannibal, MO

2004 – Biennial-Midwest Fine Art Juried Competition and Exhibition, Beverly Arts Center, Chicago, IL

2004 – 54th Annual Quad-State Juried Art Exhibition, Quincy, IL ”Furry Companions”

2004 – Solo Exhibit, Granite Bank Gallery, Quincy, IL

2004 – 1st Annual Midsummer Arts Faire, Quincy, Illinois

2005 – Solo Exhibit, Hannibal LaGrange College

2005 – July, Solo Exhibit-Hannibal Arts Council-Hannibal, MO

2005 – 41st Annual Hannibal Area Competition and Exhibit

2005 – 2nd Annual Midsummer Arts Faire, Quincy, Illinois

2006 – March, Solo Exhibit, Granite Bank Gallery, Quincy, IL

2006 – May, Biennial-Midwest Fine Art Competition and Exhibition – Municipal Art League of Chicago

2006 – July, Solo Exhibit-Mark Twain Museum, Hannibal, MO

2006 – 32nd Annual Clarksville Exhibit and Competition

2007 – Missouri Nationals, Fulton, Missouri

2007 – “Looking Back At Myself” open exhibit, Hannibal, Missouri

2007 – 43rd Annual Hannibal Area Competition and Exhibit

2007 – Solo Exhibit, John Wood Community College, Quincy, IL

2007 – Prairie Days Exhibit, Vandalia, MO

2007 – 33rd Art Exhibit and Competition, Clarksville, MO

2007 – Solo Exhibit, Granite Bank Gallery, Quincy, Illinois

2007 – Solo Exhibit – Lorenzetti’s – Jacksonville, Illinois

2007 – 57th Annual Quad State juried Exhibition. “I Wish it Were Snow”

2008 – Biennial-Midwest Fine Art Competition And Exhibition, Chicago, Illinois

2008 – Solo Exhibit, Granite Bank Gallery, Quincy, Illinois

2008 – “Inanimate Objects: Still Life Art from the Permanent Collection”, Western Illinois University Art Gallery. “Red Pear” and “Yellow Pear”

2008 – Solo Exhibit – Quincy Medical Group

2009 – Solo exhibit, Dr. Ugs Drugstore, Virginia, Illinois

2009 – Southern Watercolor Society’s 32nd Annual Exhibit, Columbus, Georgia

2009 – 6th Annual Midsummer Arts Faire, Quincy, Illinois

2009 – Solo Exhibit – Granite Bank Gallery, Quincy, Illinois

2009 – Best of Missouri Hands Exhibit, “Celebrating Creativity”, Fulton, Missouri

2010 – Watercolor Missouri Arts by the River, Cape Girardeau, Missosuri. “Afternoon Shadows at Les Bourgeois”

2010 – Watercolor Missouri Nationals, Winston Churchill Memorial & Library, Fulton, Missouri

2010 – 41st Annual River Road Show, Louisiana Art & Artist’s Guild, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. “Incoming Tide” and “Eye to Eye”

2010 – Solo Exhibit, Quincy University, Quincy, Illinois

2011 – Watercolor Missouri Nationals, Fulton, MO

2011 – 2nd Annual Art for Haiti Group Exhibit, Springfield, MO. “Mango Girl”, giclee` and “Despair in Darfur”, giclee`

2012 – Southern Watercolor Society’s 35th Annual Juried Exhibition, Sautee Nacoochee, Georgia. “The Loch”

2012 – 71st Annual Exhibition of the Watercolor Society of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama. “Dusk”

2012 – Best of Missouri Hands year long watercolor exhibit, Missouri Governor’s Mansion, Jefferson City, Missouri

2012 – Missouri Watercolor Society National Members’ Invitational, Boone County Historical Society Gallery, Columbia, Missouri. ‘Jamaican Nutmeg Man”

2012 – Mary S. Oakley and Lee Lindsay Artists Showcase, Quincy Art Center, Quincy, Illinois

2013 – 36th Annual Southern Watercolor Society Exhibit, Gadsden Arts Center, Quincy “Smithy”

2013- Kansas Watercolor Society National Exhibition, The Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, Kansas

2013 – Hannibal Alliance Art Gallery group exhibit, Mabee Art Gallery, Culver Stockton College, Canton, Missouri

2013 – Left Bank 4 Exhibit and Auction, Hannibal Arts Council, Hannibal, Missouri

2014 – Solo Exhibit, Roland Fine Arts Center in the Hagerman Art Gallery, Hannibal LaGrange University, Hannibal, Missouri

2014- The Margaret Harwell Art Museum’s Best of Missouri Hands Invitational Exhibit. “The Loch”

2014- Red River Watercolor Society’s 21st Annual Juried National Exhibition, Moorehead, Minnesota. “Maggie”

2014 – Mary S. Oakley & Less Lindsay Artist Showcase, Quincy Art Center, Quincy, Illinois

2015 – Solo Exhibit, David Strawn Art Gallery, Jacksonville, Illinois

2015 – Montana Watercolor Society’s Watermedia Exhibit, Montana

2015 – Mary S. Oakley & Less Lindsay Artist Showcase, Quincy Art Center, Quincy, Illinois

2016 – Solo Exhibit, Heath Center Art Gallery, John Wood Community College, Quincy, Illinois

2016 – Watercolor Society of Alabama’s 75th National Exhibition

2016 – Group Show, “Elements”, Hannibal Arts Council, Hannibal, Missouri

2016 – Solo Exhibit, Quincy Art Center satellite location’s Hy-Vee Market Café and Bar, Quincy, Illinois

2016 – Originale`, Hannibal, Missouri

2016 – Best of Missouri Hands Group Show, Art @ Des Peres Hospital, Des Peres, Missouri

2016 – Solo Exhibit, Hagerman Gallery, Roland Fine Art Center, Hannibal LaGrange University, Hannibal, Missouri

2017 – Solo Exhibit, Hannibal Arts Council, Hannibal, Missouri

2017 – Solo Exhibit – Cultural Art Center, Chillicothe, Missouri

2017 – Red River Watercolor Society’s 24th Annual National Juried Watermedia Exhibition

2018 – America’s Hometown Part I, Hannibal, MO

Miscellaneous Accomplishments

• 2011 – Folklife Festival Poster, 35th Annual Historic Folklife Festival, “Smithy”
• 2012 – My Tractor and Me book -27 illustrations – Click Here
• 2013 – Southgate Chili can label – “White Egrets” – Click Here
• 2013 – Cave Hollow Winery Lighthouse White Wine label – “Hannibal Lighthouse” – Click Here
• 2013 – Book cover illustration, “Elsie at Ebbtide” – Click Here
• 2014 – Full page spread in Nashville Arts magazine, page 53 – “Smithy” – Click Here
• 2014 – “The White Horse” book illustrations – Click Here
• 2015 – Billboard competition, Hannibal, Missouri, “Opaque Glass, Transparent Watercolor. “ – Click Here
• 2016 – Over 40 reproductions from original watercolors on permanent display at the Becky Thatcher Museum, Hannibal, MO – Click Here
• 2016 – Over 40 reproduction display images from original watercolors on permanent display at the Becky Thatcher Museum, Hannibal, MO – Click Here
• 2017 – Folklife Festival Poster, 42nd Annual Historic Folklife Festival, “Smithy”
• 2021 – Art Out of the Box competition winner elected by popular vote. “Clearly It’s Me Snorkeling” and “Hummingbird with Pink Flowers” Art: Out of the Box – Hannibal Arts Council – Click Here