Collection: JEREMIAH DANIEL WELSH - Artist Profile
For the past 26 years, JEREMIAH DANIEL WELSH has dedicated himself to the pursuit of excellence in low relief sculpture.
Fifteen of those years were spent as a contractual relief sculpture for Matthews International bronze, generating plastiline originals for architectural metal-casting applications.
In 2012, WELSH moved to Japan to enrich his career as a fine artist - and in 2014, he displayed his first solo exhibition at the Frederick Harris Gallery in Tokyo. Upon returning to the United States in 2015, WELSH opened his own studio in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
In 2017, WELSH presented his second solo exhibition in Colorado - and in 2019, his sculptural collection debuted at Wiford Gallery in Santa Fe.
Since becoming an Elected Member of the National Sculpture Society in 2016, WELSH has exhibited in eight (8) National Sculpture Society Annual Award Exhibitions earning top prizes including the Pietro & Alfrieda Montana Memorial Prize (2016), the Marcel Jovine's President's Prize (2019 & 2022), and the Anna Hyatt Huntington Award (2020).
In 2021, WELSH was commissioned to create the 50th Brookgreen Medal. His medal, entitled, Days of Silence - Nights of Song, was debuted at the Brookgreen Gardens in May 2022 - where he presented its development via lecture.
WELSH's sculptures have also been recognized in the 15th ARC Exhibition (2020) as well as juried into the National Wildlife Museum's Summer Exhibition (2022) and the Mountain Oyster Club's 54th Annual Contemporary Western Art Show (2023).
WELSH has acted as a sculpture judge for both National Sculpture Society as well as the National Scholastic Art Show and has lectured in art educational settings both within the U.S. and abroad.
His work has been featured in American Art Collector, Western Art Collector, Art of the West Magazine, Gray's Sporting Journal, and Fine Art Connoisseur.
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Artist's Statement
"With 26 years' full-time experience behind me, I believe that I possess the fluency and vision to revitalize the medium of low relief with fresh vigor.
Rather than the static documentation of objects that relief is often relegated to, I seek to infuse my work with the visually kinetic energy of living things. Each piece that I undertake stands as an invitation into nature's wonderment and the offering of a second chance to embrace that which otherwise may have been overlooked.
To be an artist, is to me, to live within the world as an
active and humble learner - always fascinated, ever striving, often failing and dynamically compelled - seeking to see into the unique "thingness" of each of my subjects - and further, attempting to find a way to value and make manifest the thrumming gossamer causal threads that join us all together as a living world."
Artwork Collections
Learn more about each type of fine art collection from JEREMIAH DANIEL WELSH directly.
Magazine Features
2024
TREND MAGAZINE - 2024 FLIPBOOK - Two Page, Artist Profile
2023
GRAY'S SPORTING JOURNAL -August 2023, Volume 48 -Issue 3 -Full page, Photographic feature
AMERICAN ART COLLECTOR -May 2023, Issue 211 -Collector's Focus: Wildlife -"A Walk on the Wild Side"
2022
ART OF THE WEST MAGAZINE -Nov. / Dec. 2022, 35th Anniversary Issue -Artist Feature -"Poignant Moments"
AMERICAN ART COLLECTOR -June 2022, Issue 200 -Special Section -"Looking Forward"
2021
AMERICAN ART COLLECTOR -July 2021, Issue 189 -Collector's Focus: Sculpture -"Unique Forms"
2020
AMERICAN ART COLLECTOR -May 2020 -Collector's Focus: Wildlife Art -'Wild and Free"
2019
WESTERN ART COLLECTOR -July 2019, Issue 143 -Collector's Focus: Western Sculpture -"Form and Figure"
2018
FINE ART CONNOISSEUR- Sept./Oct. 2018, Volume 15 Issue 5 -Special Section: "Today's Masters -A Fascination with Fish"
2017
GLASS - The UrbanGlass Art Quarterly -Sept, Fall Issue # 148 -National Sculpture Society Advertising
2016
AMERICAN ART COLLECTOR -August, Issue # 130 -Feature Article -"Sculptural Achievements:
National Sculpture Society's 83rd Annual Awards Exhibition"
Awards & Accomplishments
2024
Relief sculpture, Sliders, Down, awarded the Marcel Jovine President's Prize in the National Sculpture Society 91st Annual Awards Exhibition. Displayed at Brookgreen Gardens, Indianapolis Art Center, and National Sculpture Society Gallery in Manhattan as part of the 91st Annual Award Winners Exhibition in 2025.
2022
Relief sculpture, Visions of Farewell, awarded the Marcel Jovine President's Prize
in the National Sculpture Society 89th Annual Awards Exhibition, Brookgreen Gardens, South Carolina: Oct. 2022
2021
Commissioned to create the 50th Brookgreen Medal (2021)
The finished medal, entitled, Days of Silence - Nights of Song, was debuted via the presentation/lecture "Seeking Surfaces- Then and Now" (J.D. Welsh) - at the Brookgreen Gardens, May 2021
2020
Relief sculpture, Cormorant and Moon Jellyfish, awarded the Anna Hyatt Huntington Award and a Brookgreen Medal in the National Sculpture Society 87th Annual Awards Exhibition, Brookgreen Gardens, South Carolina: Oct. 2020
2019
Relief sculpture, Northern Torsion, Pike and Bull, awarded the Marcel Jovine President's Prize in the
National Sculpture Society 86th Annual Awards Exhibition, Brookgreen Gardens, South Carolina: Oct. 2019
2017
Acted, by request of the National Sculpture Society, as one of three jurors for the review of portfolios,
determination and presentation of the Dexter Jones Award (annual NSS Award for excellence in bas relief sculpture); Nov. 2017
2016
Recipient of the Pietro and Alfrieda Montana Memorial Prize - "for an outstanding work, either carved or cast" in the National Sculpture Society 83rd Annual Awards Exhibition, Brookgreen Gardens, South Carolina; Sept. 2016. Elected by review of committee, fellows and peers into the membership of the National Sculpture Society; July 2016
Juried Shows & Exhibitions
• National Sculpture Society 91st Annual Awards Exhibition - Brookgreen Gardens, South Carolina; May - July 2024 Indianapolis Art Center - Aug. - Oct. 2024
• Altered Realities - NSS Summer Exhibition - NSS Gallery, Manhattan, New York; Feb. - April 2023
• Melting Pot - NSS Spring Exhibition - NSS Gallery, Manhattan, New York; Feb. - April 2023
• 89th Annual Award Winners Exhibition - NSS Gallery, Manhattan, New York; Nov. 2022 - Jan. 2023
• National Sculpture Society 89th Annual Awards Exhibition - Brookgreen Gardens, South Carolina; Aug. - Oct. 2022
• Above the Clouds - Art of the Alpine - National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson, Wyoming; July - Sept. 2022
• 15th International ARC Salon - Art Renewal Center, New Jersey; Fall 2020 - Spring 2021
• 87th Annual Award Winners Exhibition - NSS Gallery, Manhattan, New York; Nov. 30, 2020 - Jan. 5, 2021
• National Sculpture Society 87th Annual Awards Exhibition - Brookgreen Gardens, South Carolina; Aug. - Oct. 2020
• Visions of Spring Exhibition - NSS Gallery, Manhattan, New York; March 2, 2020 - July 17, 2020
• 86th Annual Award Winners Exhibition - NSS Gallery, Manhattan, New York; Nov. 25, 2019 - Jan. 31, 2020
• National Sculpture Society 86th Annual Awards Exhibition - Brookgreen Gardens, South Carolina; Aug. - Oct. 2019
• National Sculpture Society 85th Annual Awards Exhibition - Brookgreen Gardens, South Carolina; Aug. - Oct. 2018
• American Medallic Sculpture Association Exhibition - Medialia Gallery, New York, New York; May 19 - July 29, 2018
• 37th Western Spirit Art Show - Old West Museum, Cheyenne, Wyoming; March 3 - April 15, 2018
• Audubon Artists 75th Annual Exhibition; Oct. 1- Dec. 31, 2017
• The Great American Bison Show; The Tracy Miller Gallery, Manitou Springs, Colorado; Sept. - Oct. 2017
• National Sculpture Society 84th Annual Awards Exhibition - Brookgreen Gardens, South Carolina; Aug. - Oct. 2017
• Solo Exhibition - Seeking Surfaces, Then and Now - Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region Gallery Space, Colorado Springs, Colorado; July - Sept. 2017
• National Sculpture Society 83rd Annual Awards Exhibition - Brookgreen Gardens, South Carolina; Aug. - Oct. 2016
• Juried Solo Exhibition - Reverance, Polarity, Metaphor - Frederick Harris Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; Jan. 20 - Feb. 9, 2014
• 5th Nationwide Juried Catholic Arts Competition and Exhibition; 2014
• Westmoreland Museum of American Art Juried Biennial; 2008
• Westmoreland Museum of American Art First Juried Biennial; 2004
• Art of the State - Pennsylvania; 2003
• Ancient Images/ Modern Expressions - First Biennial National Catholic
Arts Exhibition; 2001
• The Southwestern Pennsylvania Regional Art Exhibition - Westmoreland Museum of American Art; 2001
Looking Forward
Tending towards the elemental and organic, my work often centers upon confrontation, struggle and passage. Whether this is direct or suggestive, polarized images and ideas provoke and inspire me.
In search of such, I find that I am most often drawn to the natural world & more specifically, environments that dynamically manifest the rigors of existence and the passage of time.
The beauty and complexity of nature amidst its transitions and the seldom-chanced honor of bearing some witness to them, reminds me to lace up my boots and wander - when I am able, so long as I am able .
.. . And so to it, the road ahead awaits ...
JEREMIAH DANIEL WELSH, 2024
Available Artwork
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A Light and Aloft - Mayfly and Cherry Blossoms | 9.25" x 8.25" | Edition # 1/60
Regular price $1,990Regular priceUnit price per -
Amid the Plumeria | 6" x 6" x .875" | Edition # 7/30
Regular price $2,900Regular priceUnit price per -
Badlands Bull | 8" x 15" x 1.25" | Edition # 9/18
Regular price $10,400Regular priceUnit price per -
Borzoi Boreal | 6" x 6" | Edition # 4/75
Regular price $3,500Regular priceUnit price per
