Biography

Hugh graduated from the University of Kansas with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. He worked over forty years in the architectural field in Wichita Kansas, where he still resides. Many of Hugh's paintings reflect his formal training as an architectural delineator, often incorporating various structures such as homes and/or barns etc. into his landscapes. He has a keen eye for composition and color and his landscapes are both nostalgic in their purity and realistic in their execution. Hugh is an artist who paints in a style that is easy for people of all ages to relate to and appreciate.

2024 1st Place oil & acrylic, & Peoples Choice Fredonia Arts Council-Stone House Gallery, Fredonia, Kansas
2024 3rd Place Mark Arts National Watercolor Exhibition, Wichita, Kansas
2024 1st Place Verdigris Valley Art Exhibit, Independence, Kansas
2024 1st Place Fiftieth Annual Prairie Art Exhibition, Sterling, Kansas
2024 Best of Show Heartland Artist Exhibition Mirriam, Kansas
2024 3rd Place Art & Color 365 Open Competition
2023 1st Place Fredonia Arts Council-Stone House Gallery, Fredonia, Kansas
2023 1st Place Art & Color 365 Landscape Competition
2023 Best of Show Verdigris Valley Art Exhibit, Independence, Kansas
2023 2nd Place Art & Color 365 Acrylics Competition
2023 2nd Place Prairie Art Exhibition, Sterling, Kansas
2023 3rd Place Mark Arts National Watercolor Exhibition, Wichita, Kansas
2022 2nd Place Fredonia Arts Council-Stone House Gallery, Fredonia, Kansas
2022 1st Place Verdigris Valley Art Exhibit, Independence, Kansas
2022 Honorable Mention Kansas Watercolor Society National Exhibition
2021 Honorable Mention Missouri Watercolor Society Internationa Exhibition
​2021 Best of Show 47th Prairie Art Exhibit, Independence, Kansas
​2021 1st Place Jane Stephens Annual Watercolor Memorial Competition, SouthWind Fine Art
Gallery, Topeka, Kansas.
2020 Stone House Gallery, Fredonia, Kansas, "Peoples Choice" and "Gallery Choice" 
2019 1st Place and Honorable Mention, Stone House Gallery, Fredonia, KS.
2019 Award of Distinction 23rd annual Heartland Artist Exhibition, Merriam Kansas
2019 1st Place and Honorable Mention Stone House Gallery, Fredonia Kansas
2018 1st place Wichita's Gallery XII's "Crazy 8's"
2018 2nd place, "National Society of Painters in Casein & Acrylic" Salmagundi Club, New York City. 
2018 "Best of Show" Stone House Gallery Fredonia KS.
2018 2nd place Kansas Watercolor Society National Exhibition.
2017 Stone House Gallery Fredonia Kansas "People's Choice" and "Gallery Choice Committee Winner" 
2016The Burton & Susie Dole award in the Fallbrook (California) 7th annual Signature American    Watermedia Exhibition.
2016 The Stone House Gallery Fredonia Kansas "People's Choice" and "Gallery Choice Committee Winner"
2015 The Louise C. Nemeth Memorial Award "National Society of Painters in Casein & Acrylic" SalmagundiClub New York
2014 The Elizabeth Erlanger Memorial Award "National Society of Painters in Casein & Acrylic" SalmagundiClub New York
2013 1stPlace "Great Plains Nature Center's Art on the Trail 2013"
2013 Watercolor Missouri International "Missouri Artist Award"
2012 Best of Show Kansas Watercolor Society National Exhibition
2012 1st PlaceMissouri Watercolor Society's National Members' Invitational 
2011 Watercolor Missouri National's "Board of Directors Award"
2010 "Award of Excellence" (Best of Show) Watercolor Missouri National
2009"The Sutherland Lumber Co. Award" Watercolor Missouri National
2008 "George Latta Memorial Award" Watercolor Missouri National show


















2004 35th Annual Art Awards sponsored by the Arts Council (Wichita, Kansas), presented Hugh with their Excellence in the Arts "Individual Artist" Award
2003 Grand Prize Arts for the Parks Top 100, an International competition for his unique interpretation of Fort Larned titled New Stories and Tall Tales. He is the only artist to win the Grand Prize in both the     
Top-100 and the Mini-100 from Arts for the Parks.
2002 Winner for Region III Arts for the Parks competition for Winter on the Tallgrass and the People'schoice award for the same painting
2001 Best of Show "Art from the Heartland"
2000 Best of Show "Kansas 7 State Watercolor Exhibition"

He is the author of two books:Hugh Greer Missouri to New Mexico published in 1997, a sampling of Hugh's art with verse by Cathy Bolon Stephenson and Acrylic Landscape Painting Techniques,  published in 2001 by North Light, a "how to. . ." book.

Also available through Creative Catalyst Productions are three instruction DVD's:Acrylic Landscape Painting Tools & Techniques, Landscape Studies in Acrylic,and Create Mood and Atmosphere with Color & Value. For ordering information contact www.ccpvideos.com


Biography
Winner of the 2006 Arts for the Parks Mini-100 GRAND PRIZE for his painting of the Harry S. Truman house in Independence, Missouri titledThe Buck Stops Here.