20th February 2001

Thank you for applying for the Excellence in Arts Award, your website has won the Gold. I enjoyed my visit.

21st February 2001

Hello, You recently applied for the SWA Galleries Awards, an award program that focuses on your visual artistry and design. Your website is given an artistic and design review using my 40 years of experience in Art. I am pleased to announce that The John Groves Studio has earned SWA Galleries Awards' highest honor, The Masterpiece Gold Award! Your Artwork is clearly the work of a master. In addition, your gallery is fluid and well organized. And finally, the compression is at idea quality verses file size. Thank you for sharing your Masterpiece to the Internet Community! Congratulations, Tom Powell

26th February 2001

Thank-you for submitting your site for the ERAust site award. We are pleased to announce that your site has received a rating of 10. A great site. It uses a good layout. Is easy to read and navigate.

February 2001

Congratulations on a wonderful site. I wish you continued success with this site and all your future endeavors. - Colleen

Dear Derek, Thank you very much for your interest to "TheABBA, Seal Of Music Awards Programme." Our evaluation panel has finished reviewing your site and we are honoured to announce that you have won our Gold Award. Incrediblly wonderful art and wonderful design suiting it. - Hayrettin Gürkök

4th March 2001

Dear Derek, I visited your site and want to award you my Bronce Nugget. Your site about John Groves is very well designed, easy to navigate and well structured. You show lots of subjects from John Groves but the loading times are nevertheless really good. It´s nice to have the possibility to download screensavers of the phantastic paintings of John Groves or send postcards of his paintings. For your well designed site I want to award you my Bronce Nugget and hope that you accept this piece of recognition. - Dunja, House of Chinchillas

11th March 2001

Dear John and dear Derek... Congratulations! You won the Blue Crystal Award in Bronze for your site "The John Groves Studio". I was very impressed by your paintings and thank you for the chance to valuate your site. - LOMO777

14th March 2001

Congratulations from The Castle Raven. It is my pleasure to award you with the Raven Ruby Award of Excellence™. The Ruby is our second highest award, equivalent to a Silver Award. It wasn't difficult to spend time at your site, the navigation, content and design style was extremely good, easy to get about, and an appealing colour scheme that made it pleasing to linger. The original graphics are very good. - Raven

27th March 2001

John, We are pleased to present you with our Silver Award of Excellence. Your paintings are not only first rate for their attention to detail and artistic beauty, but they are also educational. Your site design was pleasant, uncluttered, very easy to navigate, and fast to load. Thank you for giving us such a wonderful experience. - Ann and Dave

29th March 2001

Hello ,Your site has been selected to receive the Wildlife Tracker Gold Award For Excellence . We award only those sites that show great design , with an emphasis on content . We review thousands of sites per month , this goes to show that your site is one of the best on the net . I as the owner of Wildlife Tracker am honored to present your site with this award , and pray that the good you spread with your site will go on for a very long time.

8th April 2001

Dear John and Derek, I am happy to inform you that your site has won the Pegasus Art Gallery's Silver Art award. I have decided to give winners of the PAG awards my matching award from the Pegasus Artist Gallery mirror site as well. Thus, you are receiving two awards. Now and then a site designer is given such a treat in showing an artist who excells beyond belief. This is one of those occasions. Webmaster Derek Oakes did a delightful job in keeping the site simple so as not to distract from the artist's work. - June Kaminski