James Toogood Artist, author, and teacher James Toogood paints the people, places and things that make up contemporary life. He studied painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. James work has been seen over 35 solo exhibitions in the United States and abroad, as well as hundreds of juried group exhibitions, including those of the American Watercolor Society, the National Academy of Design, and the Butler Institute of American Art. In 1986 James had his first museum retrospective at the Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia. James has won countless awards and is a signature member with many art organizations including the American Watercolor Society, the National Watercolor Society, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Fellowship, and Alumni Association, the Pennsylvania Watercolor Society, the New Jersey Water Color Society, and the Northeast Watercolor Society. James is a frequent juror for art societies throughout the US and was on the jury of awards for the 2006 American Watercolor Society Annual International Exhibition. His work is represented in public and private collections throughout North America and abroad. He has published many articles about painting and has been featured in numerous magazines. He has contributed to over a dozen books, among them Expressing the Visual Language of the Landscape, The Painters Guide to Design and Composition, Painting Light and Shadow, and Splash 6, 7, 8 and 9. James is the author of the book Incredible Light and Texture in Watercolor, published by North Light Books. James is represented by Rosenfeld Gallery in Philadelphia and by The Desmond Fountain Gallery in Hamilton, Bermuda. He lectures regularly about watercolor throughout the US and abroad. James teaches at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and at the Perkins Center for the Arts in Moorestown, New Jersey. James maintains a studio in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.