August 2005 - Best of Show, Art on Main, Hendersonville, NC

August 2004 - Best of Show, Art on Main, Hendersonville, NC

July 2004 - finalist, Still Life category, Artist’s Magazine’s 2004 Annual Art Competition, Kevin Macpherson, juror

April 2004 - Best of Show, Inman Park Arts Festical, Atlanta, GA

August 2003 - Best of Show, Art on Main, Hendersonville, NC

July 2003 - Honorable Mention, Inman Park Arts Festival, Atlanta, GA

May 2002 - 2nd place, Two-Color Cover Category, Evangelical Press Association

May 2002 - 1st place, Full-Color Original Art Category, Evangelical Press Association

June 2001 - 2nd place, “Paradox,” ChristChurch Presbyterian, High Museum curator Laurie Hicks, juror

May 2001 - 1st place, Full-Color Art Category, Evangelical Press Association

October 2000 - 2nd place watercolor category, Maitland Arts Festival, Maitland, FL

June 2000 - 3rd place, “Exile,” ChristChurch Presbyterian, High Museum curator Laurie Hicks and preparator Jim Waters; Mark Karolson, Modern Primitive, jurors

August 1999 - 1st place, Hendersonville Arts Festival, Hendersonville, NC

June 1999 - Best of Show, “Decalogue,” ChristChurch Presbyterian, High Museum curator Margaret Reneke and preparator Jim Waters jurors

1999 - finalist, Portrait category, Artist’s Magazine’s 1999 Annual Art Competition, Everett Raymond Kinstler, juror October 1998 - Honorable Mention, Ocala Arts Festival, Ocala, FL

May 1998 - First place, Artist Market, Decatur Arts Festival, Decatur, GA

April 1996 - Pearl Art Center Award at Georgia Watercolor Society’s 17th National Exhibition