Ted Lawson is an award winning watercolor artist whose initial art training came during high
    school in Phoenix, Arizona. Ted spent a tour in the US Navy and a career in engineering but
    kept his strong interest in art. Ted has since studied with nationally known instructors Gerald
    Brommer, Tony Couch and Fred Graff and continues training and development in watercolor
    composition and design.

    Ted works in watercolors and acrylics primarily in a representational style however he
    occasionally experiments with non-objective and abstract styles. He leaves it up to the viewer
    to use his or her own intellect and experiences to find the underlying meanings.

    Ted likes to create art using "the things that people see and use everyday" as his inspiration.
    His ideas involving common everyday scenes or objects spring from his extensive foreign and
    domestic travels as well as glimpses of New York City. Ted continuously strives to accomplish
    the goal of creating something that is entertaining and thought provoking for other people to
    look at and enjoy.

    Born in Terre Haute, Indiana, Ted resides in Canton, Ohio with his wife Patricia, a high school
    Spanish teacher. They have one daughter, Emily, who with her husband Guy, lives in NYC
    and works in a Manhattan law firm that specializes in live productions for Broadway.  

    Ted is a signature member of the Ohio Watercolor Society.  Ted’s paintings are represented
    in public and private collections across the US.  Ted’s paintings have been juried into
    Regional, State and International Exhibitions.

    Ted is included in a recently published anthology of Stark County Ohio artists, Stark
    ARThology.  Furthermore, Ted’s painting “Mini Bittner” was chosen as the cover art for Stark
    ARThology.  In the forward of Stark ARThology, David Kaminiski writes “Until his retirement in
    April 2010, Ted was an engineer at Marathon Petroleum in Canton, schooled in mechanical
    engineering and economics.  So how did this mechanical engineer become a watercolor
    artist?”  Ted responds, “How did this artist ever become a mechanical engineer?”.  
    Nevertheless, Ted remains intensely interested in art in general and watercolor painting, in
    particular.
Biography
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