Writing a biographical statement on a Web page is difficult for any artist.
Listing events and awards won’t speak of the quality of my paintings as much as the actual viewing of them.
The really important things in life are often found in emotions, the feelings you have when you see the work – your memories about a certain afternoon while walking in the mountains, or the feeling you get when you look to the West at that everlasting desert sunset. Light is unhurried and radiant and enduring. George Villiers said it best in the quote below.
This is the quality I try to impart in my painting.

“Dash as we might down the gray road in front of us, we could never dash out of that golden afternoon. It was all around us, and about us, enveloping us, touching our face and hands with glory. The sun was complete master of the situation. Everything was bathed equally and evenly in its superb, unhurried radiance. And my spirit rejoiced. This, I said, will last forever, this golden afternoon--not in time splintered by man and measured by clocks; but in eternity, as quality, a part of the everlasting background of things...For it reveals to us the God of all joy”
George Villiers – 1938

A third generation artist, born and raised in Colorado, I grew up learning to listen to the eternal eminence of life so particular to high country living.
It is the gift of quiet attentiveness that I try to impart to my many students, who learn how an artist becomes a conduit between imagination and image.
While I love working in the studio, I try to roam the West whenever I can to remain connected to my inspiration.
For those who like lists and numbers, I’ve included the following information:

C. J. Chadwell
Shows, Awards and Seminars
Glenwood Springs Fall Art Festival, First Place Professional, 2002
Glenwood Springs Fall Art Festival, Grand Reserve Champion, 2000
Air Force Academy, One Woman Show, 1999
First Place Professional, Valley High Country Club, Regional Invitational Show, Colorado Springs, 1988
Western National Bank, One-Woman Show, Colorado Springs, 1985
Collection of the Native American Indian Museum, Albuquerque, NM

Many other numerous awards, collections, workshops and seminars, including:
Guest Artist, Timberline Club, Plein Air Lecture and Workshops
Guest Artist, Mountain Arts Council, Plein Air Lecture and Workshops
Guest Speaker, Rocky Mountain Aesthetics Society, Plein Air Lecture

Fine Art Studies
Scottsdale Artist School - Plein Air Workshops, 1996 - 1998
Studies with Landscape Master Kimiko Mori - Japan, 1967 - 1969
Commercial Art Degree - Colorado Springs, 1986
Art Director - KLM Glass, Colorado Springs, 1987 - 1991
Art Director - Michael Garman Productions, 1991 - 1995

Member - Oil Painters of America (OPA) and Pikes Peak Plein Aire Painters