About

Remembering her childhood calligraphy lessons and the feel of brush strokes, Gloria Tseng Fischer took up watercolor as her de-stressor while practicing architecture and raising her family.

She paints with brushes, rarely with prior pencil sketches, directly on hot press watercolor papers. Her mastery of watercolor medium results in accurate but explosively loose depiction of her subjects. Her paintings have a sense of textures which are beautifully rendered dark and lights with washy tones. She is very strategic in the use of white paper. The white becomes the highlights and thus usually an active participant of the painting. Gloria’s watercolor foregrounds are accurate and explosively loose. Her works are naturalist and not realistic.

Gloria’s work has been recognized by numerous international, regional, and local art competition awards and inclusion in curated exhibitions.

Awards

Field of Gold (2023) Second Place: Capitol Hill Art League: “Flora + Fauna” Member Show 2025

Golden Juice (2025) Honorable Mention: Potomac Valley Watercolorists: “The Painted Garden” Exhibition 2025

Lane (2024) Honorable Mention: Maryland Federation of Art and The Asian Arts & Culture Center at Towson University’s Interwoven Worlds Exhibition 2025

Splendor in Autumn (2024) Finalist: Artists Magazine & American Artist’s Splash 26 (The Best of Watercolor) Summer 2025 issue

Lace (2024) Third Place: Baltimore Watercolor Society Signature Member Exhibition: Bernice Kish Gallery at Slayton House 2025

Onion V (2021) Honorable Mention: Maryland Federation of Art’s Food for Thought 2024

Apple Story (2023) Memorial Award in Honor of Jung Lea Smith: Potomac Valley Watercolorists: Green Springs Gardens “Art in Bloom” Exhibition 2023

Coffee in Zimbabwe (2023) Merit Award: Laurel Art Guild 54th (2023) Annual Open Juried Exhibition

White Onions (2022) Third Place: Maryland Federation of Art: Food for Thought 2022

Spent Valentine (2020) Honorable Mention: Potomac Valley Watercolorists: Green Springs Gardens “Emergence” Exhibition 2022

Oranges for J Albers (2020) Honorable Mention: Baltimore Watercolor Society Signature Member Exhibition: Strathmore Mansion 2021

End of a Workday (2018) Pennsylvania Watercolor Society Award:  Baltimore Watercolor Society Mid-Atlantic Regional Exhibition 2018

Van Gogh Sunflowers (2016) Second Place: Still Life in Montgomery Art Association: Creative Expressions 2018

Boy (2017) Second Place: Portrait in Montgomery Art Association: Creative Expressions 2017

Iris (2014) First Place: Still Life in Montgomery Art Association: Creative Expressions 2015

Girl (2015) Honorable Mention: Portrait in Montgomery Art Association: Creative Expressions 2015

Leek, Onions, & Garlic (2014) First Place: Still Life in Montgomery Art Association: Creative Expressions 2014

Beets (2013) Honorable Mention: Culinary Art Show at Friendship Heights Village 2013

Sunflowers (2013) Honorable Mention: Still Life in Montgomery Art Association: Creative Expressions 2013

Organization

Baltimore Watercolor Society, Signature Member: 2017 - Present

Potomac Valley Watercolorists, Member: 2019 - Present

Pennsylvania Watercolor Society, Member: 2024 - Present

Philadelphia Watercolor Society, Associate Member: 2024 - Present

Capitol Hill Art League, Member: 2024 - Present

Maryland Federation of Art, Member: 2017 - Present

Montgomery Art Association, Member: 2012 - Present

Takoma Artery, Member: 2024-Present

City of Takoma Park, Arts & Humanities Commission, Board Member: 2017 - 2021 (Vice Chair 2020-2021)

Arts on the Block, Board Member: 2011 - 2015