Cecelia Jurgens Fine Art
and Painting Adventures

Cecelia Jurgens is an elected member of the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour.  She is also an Active Member of the Federation of Canadian Artist’s.

Cecelia is best known for her contemporary paintings, celebrating colour and light.  She enjoys working in the diverse mediums of watercolour, acrylic and pastel.

Cecelia has been in many group shows since l987, and solo shows since l998.  In October 2004, she had a major showing of twenty pieces at Collector’s Choice Gallery in Saskatoon.  This was the result of a Sketchbook Workshop that she taught in Italy in June of 2004.  She has entered and been selected in numerous juried shows.

In 2001, she was commissioned by the Deputy Chief of Protocol for the Provincial Government to paint a prairie scene.  This painting was presented as a gift from the Province of Saskatchewan to President Vladimir Putin of Russia when he was in Ottawa.  The Province has since commissioned five more paintings for similar presentations.  Her work is in private, public, and corporate collections across Canada, the United States, Europe, the United Kingdom, Russia and Africa.

Since 1999, Cecelia has been teaching Art Workshops.  These workshops vary from Basic Drawing, Beginner Watercolour, Intermediate and Advanced Watercolour, Fun with Acrylic, Beginner Pastel, and Ink and Watercolour Sketchbook Workshops.  In June 2004, she led a two-week Sketchbook Workshop in Italy, touring Rome, Tuscany Region and the Umbria Region.  September 2005, she taught a two-week Sketchbook Workshop in England.  This trip highlighted Windsor, Stratford-upon-Avon, the Cotswold Villages, and the Lake District.  In November 2006 Cecelia taught her Sketchbook Workshop touring Chile, the Andes, and Argentina.  September 2007 featured Western Canada’s Hoodoos and Rockies.  In May of 2008 her Spring Sketchbook Workshop in France encompasses Paris and Provence and a Sketchbook workshop in Spain and Portugal with a side trip to Marrakech, Morocco is planned for the spring of 2009.

Working as a full-time artist, Cecelia has her own studio - gallery at home in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

Cecelia’s work is carried by Collector’s Choice Art Gallery in Saskatoon.

To visit her home Gallery call Cecelia at

(306) 242-6778, or e-mail cjurgens@shaw.ca