Recent awards for Gretha Lindwood’s work include “Honorable Mention” at the Carmel Art Festival 2019; “Pat Tunks” Award at the 2019 Lake Area Artists Show & Sale; “Olympic National Park Superintendent’s Award” at Paint the Peninsula 2018; 2^ndPlace Award at the Wallowa Arts Festival 2018; “People’s Choice” at the Favell Museum Art Show & Sale 2017; “Honorable Mention” and 3^rdPlace Quick Draw” at Driggs Digs Plein Air 2017; “Honorable Mention” at the 51^stLake Area Artists Show & Sale; “Best Waterscape” at Paint the Peninsula 2016; “Best Pastel” and “Honorable Mention” at the 23^rdAnnual Carmel Arts Festival; “Honorable Mention” at the 50^thAnnual Lake Area Artists Show & Sale; “Olympic National Park Superintendent’s Award” and Dungeness National Wildlife Refuge “Honorable Mention” at Paint the Peninsula 2015; “First Place” and “Mayor’s Award” at the 49^thAnnual Lake Area Artists Show & Sale; “People’s Choice” at the Pacific Northwest Plein Air Competition 2014; “Best Pastel” at the 21^stAnnual Carmel Art Festival; “Best Of Show” at the Lake Area Artists 48^thAnnual Art Affair; “Best Pastel” at Pacific Northwest Plein Air Competition 2013; “Second Place” at the Laguna Plein Air Painters Association 9^thAnnual Best of Plein Air Juried Show; “Honorable Mention” at the 20^thAnnual Carmel Art Festival; both “Best Pastel” and “People’s Choice” at the 19^thAnnual Carmel Art Festival; “Juror’s Award” at the 26^thAnnual Northwest Pastel Society International Exhibit; and “First Place” at the Laguna Plein Air Painters Association 7^thAnnual Best of Plein Air Juried Show. 

Lindwood has been juried in to Portland Open Studios for the past six years. She was a participant of the 19^th– 24^thand 25^th- 26th Annual Carmel Art Festival, Los Gatos Plein Air 2012 - 2016, 3^rdAnnual Lighthouse Art Festival, 8^thAnnual Telluride Plein Air, 13^thAnnual Laguna Beach Plein Air Painting Invitational as well as the Pacific Northwest Plein Air 2014, 2013, 2012 and 2011 Competitions and Exhibitions. Her work has been accepted to the Coos Art Museum Expressions West 2011 and 2010 in Coos Bay, Oregon as well as many juried exhibits throughout the west coast.