Ruth Pawson
Saskatchewan Order of Merit, 1993

Ruth Pawson is of the representational school of landscape painters, working in oils. She is known and loved for her painting and her years of teaching in the rural and Regina school systems and at the University of Regina. Ruth Pawson received the majority of her art education at the Emma Lake Summer School of Art and the Banff School of Fine Arts. She has had solo exhibitions at the Dunlop Art Gallery in Regina, and has appeared in many group shows around the province. Her work is kept in many school collections as well as other Saskatchewan art collections and the National Gallery in Ottawa.

Lieutenant Governor's Arts Award Recipients

Lifetime Achievement - Joe Fafard (2007)
30 Below - Thomas Yu (2007)
Leadership - Saskatchewan Music Educators Association (2007)
Innovation in the Arts - Yorkton Short Film & Video Festival (2007)
Lifetime Achievement - Bill Epp (2005)
30 Below - Holly Luhning (2005)
Leadership - Richard Spafford (2005)
Innovation in the Arts - Edward Poitras (2005)
Lifetime Achievement - John Arcand (2004)
30 Below - Sheri Benning (2004)
Leadership - Gary Hyland (2004)
Innovation in the Arts - Michael Hosaluk (2004)

Lifetime Achievement Award Recipients

Marjorie Dunlop (1999)
Caroline Heath (1999)
Ann Newdigate (1999)
Nik Semenoff (1999)
Elizabeth Brewster (1995)
Mary Ellen Burgess (1995)
McGregor Hone (1995)
Allen Sapp (1995)
Florence B. James (1993)
Wynona Croft Mulcaster (1993)
Ruth Pawson (1993)
James Sinclair Ross (1993)
Murray Adaskin (1991)
Mina Forsyth (1991)
Howard Leyton-Brown (1991)
Dwaine Nelson (1991)
Reta Cowley (1990)
John V. Hicks (1990)
Kenneth Kramer (1990)
Jean Oser (1990)
Anne Szumigalski (1990)
Lea Collins (1989)
Ernest Lindner (1989)
W.O. Mitchell (1989)
William A. Riddell (1989)
David Smith (1989)

Saskatchewan Order Of Merit Recipients

Don Kerr (2007)
Calvin D. Abrahamson (2006)
David L. Kaplan (2006)
William A. Waiser (2006)
Maria Campbell (2005)
Lusia Pavlychenko (2005)
Byrna Barclay (2004)
Lorne Carrier (2004)
Jack Sures (2003)
Guy Vanderhaeghe (2003)
Margaret Cugnet (2003)
Joe Fafard (2002)
Kenneth Mitchell (2001)
Jacqui Shumiatcher (2001)
Robert N. Hinitt (2000)
Carol Gay Bell (1997)
Victor Cicansky (1997)
H. Frances Morrison (1999)
Howard Leyton-Brown (1996)
Morris Shumiatcher (1996)
William Perehudoff (1994)
William H. Riddell (1994)
Ruth Pawson (1993)
Emmie Oddie (1991)
Reta Cowley (1990)
Anne Szumigalski (1989)
Marguerite Gallaway (1988)
Dorothy Knowles (1987)
Lyell A. Gustin (1986)
Hilda Allen (1985)
Allen Sapp (1985)