"Patient Works" by J.D. Titzel

Name: "Patient Works" by J.D. Titzel
Start: 2025-10-24T10:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-10-24T16:00:00-04:00
Location: 224 Market St, Wilmington, NC, United States, North Carolina 28401

Schedule

Fri Oct 24 2025 at 10:00 am to 04:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

224 Market St, Wilmington, NC, United States, North Carolina 28401 | Wilmington, NC

The Burgwin-Wright House is pleased to welcome local artist J.D. Titzel for his show “Patient Works.”
The Opening reception, in conjunction with Fourth Friday Gallery Nights, is on Friday, October 24 from 6-9PM.
His artwork will be on display and for sale in our art gallery through November 21. Admission is free. The gallery is open Monday-Saturday 10am-4pm.
About the Show
Titled “Patient Works” due to his meticulous attention to every detail, JD Titzel’s show consists of watercolors, oils, and graphite drawings. The show has a wide range of subject matter: people, still life, and landscapes that reflect natural beauty in everyday life.
“I paint out of a love and to share an appreciation for our world so viewers may contemplate and perhaps be thankful for what is often overlooked in everyday life.”
About the Artist
Largely self-taught watercolor artist, J.D. Titzel, has drawn and painted since high school. He began his college career as an art major at Wittenberg University but found he couldn’t connect with the largely popular abstract movement. He changed majors and graduated first in his class of around 450 pilots from the aeronautical science program at Miami Dade College, continuing to paint and draw on the side.
Titzel was a pilot and flight instructor who flew thousands of hours as captain on large three and four engine jets before retiring to paint full time for the past thirty years. During his career as a pilot, he was paired in crews of 3 and retirement left him alone with his painting for 10 hours a day. It took patience to persevere over the contrast in careers, and his watercolor paintings are evidence to the rewarding result of his patience.
When he paints in watercolor, Titzel builds color slowly in very thin layers of paint. Some areas are 2-3 layers while others are attained in 10 or more layers. This gives his paintings more nuances and depth than a single color can achieve. The average watercolor painting takes seventy hours to complete. However, he has taken close to 300 hours to complete a single painting.
J.D.’s work has been exhibited in numerous shows both regionally and nationally, from the Hudson Valley Art Association, and the New England Watercolor Society National Show, to the Chautauqua Exhibition of American Art National Show, where he won the Arthur Harless Award, the Merit Award, and the Mme. Shda Fang Sheng Awards, respectively. These are only a few of the shows and awards J.D.’s work has garnered.