Ron Thurston

"A surge of visual impact here, a wisp of creative style there. If it looks good, leave it alone." Ron Thurston is a signature member of the American Watercolor Society and a past President of the Pittsburgh Watercolor Society. He is a founding member of Pittsburgh Under Water, a member of Pittsburgh Illustrators and served on the Board of Trustees of the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts.

Ron has a long career as a commercial artist, whether from design firms in the advertising market, or in the personal commission field where his reputation as one of the area's premier watercolor painters brings many buyers to his work. He is best known for his intensely colorful style distinguished by his personal variant of post-abstract realism.

Ron teaches workshops at Sweetwater and Touchstone and is President of Watercolors, an artists' owned gallery located in the heart of Pittsburgh's downtown cultural district.