Alison Barry
Lusby, Maryland
With the spirit of curiosity and artistic experimentation, and in pursuit of evocative juxtapositions and compositions, Alison Barry sets out almost daily, in all seasons, with her painting gear. Her work is defined by strong shapes, clean colors and expressive brushwork, influenced by past and contemporary painters such as Emile Gruppe, Aldro Hibbard, Charles Movalli, Edward Seago, Jerry Weiss and Stapleton Kearns. Close observation on location bring immediacy and freshness to her paintings. Alison resides in Southern Maryland, home to crab boats, tobacco barns and the beautiful Chesapeake Bay.
Bill Farnsworth
Venice, Florida
A Signature member of OPA and AIS, Bill Farnsworth is a nationally know artist who was elected to ASMA Fellowship in 2019.
He has won numerous awards in OPA, AIS, NOAPS and ARC.
Farnsworth’s work has been exhibited throughout the United States in private collections and museums.
He lives in Venice, Fl. With his wife Debbie.
Charles Cashwell
Sautee Nachoochee, Georgia
Charles Cashwell was born in Columbia, S.C. and currently lives in Sautee, Georgia. Trained as an illustrator at the prestigious RIngling School of Art, Charles soon found his focus as a portrait artist and had a successful career for over 20 years. IN the last few years he has devoted himself to painting En Plein Air and in the studio. Charles paints in the impressionist style. His spontaneous brushwork seeks to capture the light and gestural qualities of nature.
Dee Beard Dean
Johns Island, South Carolina
Dee Beard Dean, nationally-known artist and instructor, has been painting all of her life. Her highly collectible work hangs in corporate and private collections throughout the United States.
Her greatest inspirations have come from painting on location where all the senses are elevated. She is the founder of Plein Air Painters of the Southeast, a well-recognized professional organization of plein air artists. Dee is in great demand as a teacher of plein air and teaches national and international workshops. She is also well known for her portraits, as well as her figurative and landscape paintings, and has done many noteworthy commissions. She has received many awards throughout her art career and has been published in many regional and national journals. Her artwork can currently be seen at galleries around the country.
Deliece Blanchard
Winston Salem, North Carolina
Deliece Blanchard paints landscapes, with lyrical and rhythmic marks that reveal her background in music. Her paintings are colorfully impressionistic, and frequently depict her favorite environment, the Blue Ridge Mountains.
“I love the plein air community – meeting amazing painters and enthusiastic collectors and discovering beautiful landscapes. I also enjoy introspective time experimenting in the studio.”
Deliece has been juried into 4 American Impressionist Society shows and 3 Oil Painters of America shows. Her work has appeared in Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine. A cellist, as well as a painter, Deliece has degrees in biology and music from the University of Virginia. She lives in Winston Salem, North Carolina.
Eileen Sanger
Belhaven, North Carolina
Eileen lives in Belhaven, North Carolina, where she maintains her art studio and gallery. She has painted on location in Cape Cod, Connecticut, California, Florida and Maine. Studying with many well known artists has given her the opportunity to sharpen her plein air techniques. Eileen has been in many group and solo exhibitions, showing in Salmagundi Club in NYC, Chrysalis Gallery in Southampton NY, William Ris Gallery, and Reboli Museum. She is a member of Oil Painters of America, and Arts of the Pamlico.
Eleanor McArver
New Bern, North Carolina
A native to North Carolina and a B.F.A. graduate from U.N.C.Chapel Hill in the visual arts. As a Coastal Carolina Colorist she is inspired by what nature provides and uses the approach of seeing and painting color and light. An impressionistic style that is used to interpret what is seen and tells a story of the experience to the viewer.
Associate Member of the American Impressionist Society, Coastal Carolina Plein Air Painters, N.C.Plein Air Painters, and Community Artist Gallery of New Bern.
Elizabeth Rhoades
Belle Haven, Virginia
Elizabeth Rhoades is an award winning and highly recognized American impressionist landscape painter whose works are characterized by their sensitivity to the natural forms and light in the landscape. A lifetime of plein air painting has provided her with a foundation to accurately depict her response to her motif. Her keen observation and thorough knowledge of the landscape is evident in her award-winning paintings. There is an emotional quality to her work that brings peace and tranquility to the viewer, while at the same time having a distinct vitality through her use of color. Her preference is in painting nature, undisturbed by human intervention.
Jacalyn Beam
Greenville, Delaware
Jacalyn Beam is a Brandywine Valley artist known for her plein air landscapes. “Her rich palette and sensitive depictions of places are a winning combination that will reward lingering to appreciate the details” (J Chamblis, Chester CoPress) Jacalyn participates in national juried shows and her work hangs in galleries across the USA from Carmel, CA to Annapolis, MD. In 2020 she was invited to represent Delaware in the “America the Beautiful” show- a national art show depicting scenes from each state. Jacalyn has been featured in books and magazines including 100 MId-Atlantic Plein Air Painters, HUNT, Western Art Collector, American Art Collector, and Outdoor Painter to name a few. In 2019, the editor of Fine Art Connoisseur interviewed her to be part of the collector spotlight.
In 2020, the Governor appointed Jacalyn to the State Arts Council which advises the Division of the Arts on matters of arts policy, funding, and other issues relevant to supporting arts in Delaware. She is an active member of Oil Painters of America, the American Impressionist Society, the Washington Society of Landscape Painters, and MidAtlantic Plein Air Painters Association. She has been the invited instructor for groups including the Howard Pyle Studio, Rehoboth Art League, and Delaware Valley Division of the Arts.
Jeff Markowsky
Savannah, Georgia
In 2022 Markowsky, “The Plein Air Nomad” retired from teaching full time and is currently traveling across North America painting and living a nomadic life. He also illustrates and serves as an Ambassador for the outdoor recreational clothing company American Backcountry. Markowsky won the Grand Prize at the 3rd Annual Saint Augustine Plein Air Festival in 2019. He was the 2018 Grand Prize winner of the Lighthouse Art Center 5th Annual Plein Air Festival in Tequesta Florida and returned in 2019 as judge. He won ‘Best Water’ category for the 2019 January/February Plein Air Salon. He is a member of The Oil Painters of America and was juried in to the 2019 Eastern Regional Exhibition in McBride Gallery in Annapolis, Maryland.
Jill Glassman
Berlin, Maryland
Jill lives on the Eastern Shore of Maryland where she is an active member of numerous art and plein air organizations. She paints in oil as well as pastel, and has competed as a juried artist in a number of plein air events.
Jill McGannon
Suwanee, Georgia
Jill Schultz McGannon received her BFA from the University of Georgia in 1985 and her MFA from UGA in 1988. She has worked as an artist for 35 years, supplementing painting sales with commissions and teaching. Her work can be seen at Mason Fine Art in Atlanta, GA, Four Corners Gallery in Bluffton, SC, and High Country Art in Blue Ridge, GA. She paints in oils in a painterly realistic style, preferring to work from life whenever possible. She started painting plein air in Italy in 1995, and currently paints primarily on the SC and GA coast.
Jim Laurino
Litchfield, Connecticut
Jim studied painting, design, and color theory at the University of Connecticut. Through additional workshops and self-study, Jim has cultivated a bold representational painting style that balances the impressionists influence with contemporary subject matter. His expressive application of paint, married with a keen eye for classic New England scenes, charms the viewer and truly makes his work unique.
Jim’s paintings are in numerous private collections throughout the US and overseas. He shows his work in venues across the Northeast, and enjoys participating in competitive painting events.
John Caggiano
Rockport, Massachusetts
John Caggiano was born in Brooklyn, New York, where he studied pre-engineering at Brooklyn Technical High School. He received a BA degree from Brooklyn College and an MFA from Pratt Institute, both with honors. His education was supplemented by courses at The Brooklyn Museum of Art and the Studio and Forum of Stage Design in New York City.
John is a Signature Member of nine national organizations, including American Impressionist Society, American Society of Marine Artists, National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society, and the Salmagundi Club. He is invited and juried into many major plein air events every year. Some recent awards are the Texas Ranchland and Best Architecture Awards – En Plein Air Texas, Best in Show – Outdoor Painters Society, Best Artist Over 65 – Plein Air Salon, PleinAir Magazine, Life on the Farm Award – Plein Air Easton, and Stobart Foundation Award – Mystic International. He has been featured in twenty-two editorial features in PleinAir and Fine Art Connoisseur Magazines. John maintains a gallery in Rockport, MA.
John Guernsey
Marietta, Georgia
Originally from southern California, artist, John Guernsey, moved to Georgia in 1993, and began a full time art career in 2006. Developing his drawing skills in college and workshop study, he now concentrates primarily on landscape painting. Most of his work is ‘en plein air’, although he is gradually increasing the output of larger studio paintings. His work reveals a keen observance of atmosphere and light and is inspired not only by nature, but by city life as well. architecture as well. Mr. Guernsey maintains a busy schedule of workshops around the southeast, and regularly participates in nationally ranked plein air festivals throughout the country.
John T. Eiseman
Hebron, Maryland
My paintings are surely representational and narrative, but they are not about the pictorial. I use the subject matter as elements of design in order to capture mood of “event.” Painting is not just the celebration of vision but, rather a quest for experience. It is the process of interpreting a fleeting muse. This process is in a constant state of emergency. Change is always in process. Light is fleeting. I do not consider myself a “plein air” purist – I reserve the artistic license to adjust and invent.
I graduated Magna Cum Laude from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 1981 and have been painting, teaching, and exhibiting ever since. My work has been accepted into and awarded in many regional and national juried exhibitions – awards include many “best-in-show”, “Best-in-category”, artist choice, purchase and juror’s choice. My paintings are honored to be in many private and public collections.
Karen Crenshaw
Jacksonville, North Carolina
Karen Lee Crenshaw has been drawing “since she used to scribble on the walls as a child.” While living in Jacksonville, NC for the last twenty-one years, she has fallen in love with the beautiful NC Coast. You can find her painting landscapes either in her studio in Hampstead, NC, or outdoors, “en plein air.”
Karen also accepts portrait commissions. Her work is traditional and lifelike, yet it maintains a painterly quality. She enjoys providing her clients with an heirloom that will last for many generations.
Katie Dobson Cundiff
Bradenton, Florida
Having acquired an early appreciation for the fine arts, drawing, and painting, under the direction of her artist parents, Katie Dobson Cundiff was drawing on the floor of her father’s studio from the time she could hold a pencil, and realized her destiny as an artist. Her parents introduced her to the works of masters with trips to great museums, galleries, and art studios, and she accompanied her father as he gave painting demonstrations around Chicago area schools and art leagues. Early endeavors rewarded Katie with scholarships to Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota, FL, where she received her B.A. in Fine Art.
Known for her bold, confident brushwork, keen sense of composition, and color, Katie works primarily from life painting landscape, still life, figurative and wildlife. Her work has been featured on apparel and in print for many national and international conservation and wildlife organizations and has appeared in national publications including Plein Air, American Artist, Fine Art Connoisseur, American Art Collector, and Southwest Artists Magazines.
Kim Hall
Richmond, Virginia
Virginia native Kim Hall grew up surrounded by art, giving her a natural path to follow. Her art career has taken on many forms, starting with graphic design, after college, then furniture making and decorative painting, all the while circling back to her true passion of painting.
A few years ago, with a newfound focus she quickly found success in the rapidly growing plein air movement. Kim has traveled the country participating in numerous juried plein air events and being awarded for excellence for her work. Kim received a BA in Fine Art from George Mason University and continued her studies at The Corcoran School of Art. Her work is in public and private collections throughout the US. The artist is currently represented by Cabell Gallery in Lexington, Allure Art Center in White Stone and Crossroads Art Center in Richmond, all in VA.
Lynn Mehta
Alexandria, Virginia
Recognized for loose impressionistic paintings rich with color and paint, Lynn Mehta is an award-winning artist living in Alexandria, VA. An artist since childhood, Mehta earned her B.A. in Art from San Diego State University, and has studied with internationally acclaimed artists in the US and abroad.
Mehta holds Signature Membership Status in the American Impressionist Society, the Mid-Atlantic Plein Air Painters Association, and the American Society of Marine Artists. She is a Juried Artist Member of the Salmagundi Club, the Washington Society of Landscape Painters, and Oil Painters of America.
Martin Geiger
Staunton, Virginia
Martin Geiger is a figurative painter and draughtsman who works and lives in Staunton, Virginia. He received an Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant in 2018 and graduated in 2019, after four years, from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. He currently teaches at the Beverly Street Studio School in Staunton, VA and has taught at the Currier Museum in New Hampshire and Winslow Art Center in WA. He works part-time at Bronzecraft Foundry in Waynesboro, VA.
Mat Barber Kennedy
Chicago, Illinois
With degrees in architecture from the University of Sheffield and then a Masters degree from the Royal College of Art in London I have spent my career painting structures around the world. I began painting en plein air as an undergrauate, long before I had even heard of a Plein Air Event. I just thought that was what painters did.
I paint in watercolour primarily because I grew up surrounded by my parents’ ever expanding collection of works by contemporary British watercolourists. Many of those painters that I admired as a child have subsequently become my peers, mentors and friends. I lead a blessed life.
Millie Gosch
College Park, Georgia
Millie Gosch is a highly accomplished and collectible artist. Her original oil paintings hang in the corporate offices of Synovus Bank, Bank of America, St Francis hospital, WellStar Health Systems, and Price Waterhouse Coopers, among others. Her work also hangs in many private collections. Millie is a prestigious Signature Member of the American Impressionist Society.
As a Plein Air painter at heart she gets inspiration leaving the four walls of her studio to work in a natural setting. Millie prefers painting from life outdoors, and when not possible a still-life set up in the studio provides the inspiration.
While some artists work from a photograph or memory, plein air artist’s work from direct observation to paint in nature, capturing their subject matter in real time. For Millie, this way of working is both her passion and her calling. The studies she paints from life are then used as references to paint a much larger format in the studio. Her goal is to invite viewers into her painting to have their own experience. Her work is known for its vibrant use of color and texture.
Natalia Andreeva
Tallahassee, Florida
Natalia Andreeva emerged as an artist from the rich and fertile artistic climate of Novosibirsk, in Siberia after graduating from it’s most prestigious art college. During her classical education in the canons of European art she was greatly influenced by eastern philosophy. Consequentially, Natalia’s work is a harmonious marriage between spontaneous expressions and classical realism.
Among Natalia’s favorite themes are exquisite landscapes, depicting the subtlety of nature, still life, where vibrant shapes and internal dynamics are shown in contrast to the commonplace subjects, and finally, figures and portraits brimming with humanity, and giving testament to the beauty and harmony of the human condition. Natalia holds Signature Membership Status in the American Impressionist Society.
Ray Hassard
Cincinnati, Ohio
Ray Hassard grew up in the New York City area and studied at Pratt Institute. Ray is a Signature member of the Cincinnati Art Club, National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society (NOAPS), and the Pastel Society of America. He is a charter member of Ohio Plein Air Society. He was named Eminent Pastellist by the International Association of Pastel Societies (IAPS).
He participates in plein air competitions around the country, winning top awards at San Angelo TX, Richmond VA, and New Harmony IN. He is represented by: Cincinnati Art Galleries, Castle Gallery, Ft Wayne IN, and Oxford Gallery, Rochester NY.
Richard Sneary
Kansas City, Missouri
An architect and renowned architectural illustrator, Richard Sneary has over the last 3 years also begun painting en plein air in watercolor. Richard is a signature member of the National Watercolor Society and Missouri Watercolor Society, a member of the American Watercolor Society, and a member of Missouri Valley Impressionist Society.
Recent awards include 1st Place in Fast & Fresh at Plein Air Richmond 2013, 1st Place in Quick Paint at Easels in Frederick 2013, 1st & 3rd Place in watercolor at 2013 Stems Plein Air Paint, Honorable Mention at Wayne Plein Air 2013, Best of Show at the 2012 Missouri Valley Impressionist Society Inaugural Juried Exhibition, 3rd Place Award at 2012 Plein Air Vermont, Best Architectural Award for the 2012 Plein Air Easton competition, and Best of Show in the 2011 Stems Plein Air Paint. His work is represented by Strecker-Nelson Gallery in Manhattan, Kansas.
Robin Roberts
Ashland, Ohio
Painting is my way to be with God and His creation. I want to soak it in, understand it as well as I can, and then capture the special beauty of life as light and shadow fill the scene. I prefer to paint outdoors directly on site. I feel that it is the best way to capture the immediacy of the moment. It allows me to immerse myself in the subject.
My focus is oil painting with a palette knife and the energy and emotion that it presents. I see every painting as a journey of new opportunity and growth.
Rose S. Kennedy
Hope Mills, North Carolina
A lifelong resident of NC, Rose Kennedy previously worked as a graphic designer. She also worked for 18 years with an art publisher/licensing agency creating water color/mixed media paintings in the juvenile genre.
Rose now creates oil paintings in her home studio and at Cape Fear Studios in Fayetteville, NC. Her work has been juried into international, national and regional events, garnering awards along the way. Most recently her work received an honorable mention in the AIS All Member Online Exhibit. Rose participates in several plein air events each year. In addition to painting she enjoys teaching others through workshops and private lessons.
Russell Jewell
Easley, South Carolina
Russell Jewell is an internationally recognized plein air painter with signature memberships in American Watercolor Society, National Watercolor Society, andTransparent Watercolor Society of America. Jewell’s accomplishments include a doctorate in Art Education with a Fulbright Memorial fund scholarship to Japan. Jewell’s most recent national awards include Plein Air Easton 2019 Best Watercolor, 2019 South Carolina Watermedia Society National Exhibition Second Place, 2019 Transparent Watercolor Society Indira Das Memorial Award, 2017 Plein Air Easton Tilghman Island Paint Out Artists’ Choice Award. Russell Jewell’s work was published August, 2019 Watercolor Artist Magazine and a feature article “Freezing the Sun” January 2020 was published in Plein Air Magazine. In 2022 Jewell was awarded signature membership with the American Watercolor Society and exhibited in the 155 International American Watercolor Society Exhibition in New York. Russell Jewell’s work can be viewed at: russelljewell.com.
Shanna Kunz
Ogden, Utah
Shanna Kunz of Ogden, UT is a naturalist painter of the landscape, interpreting the quiet and familiar places of the American West. Her work as been featured in major art publications, including Art Of The West, Western Art & Architecture, Plein Air Magazine, Outdoor Painter, Southwest Art Magazine, Western Art Collector and Fine Art Connoisseur. Her awards include: 2019 Best In Show For Body Of Work in The Hockaday Museum Invitational, Maynard Dixon Camp Out 2015-2018, Rocky Mountain Plein Air Painters Best Of Show 2016, American Impressionist Society Exhibition 2016-2021, exhibiting at The Salmagundi Club, NYC, the Western Masters Art Show, and was chosen for the Fine Art Connoisseur Award at the Artist of the New Century Exhibit. She is a signature member of American Impressionist Society, Oil Painters of America, and is a California Art Club Out of State Member. Shanna has been invited to exhibit at Catalina Island Conservancy.
Stewart White
Baltimore, Maryland
Stewart White, from Baltimore, Maryland, is a transparent watercolorist in the purest tradition of watercolor painters. His background in architectural illustration adds to his skill set and his paintings reflect his knowledge of good design. Stewart’s paintings have the pleasing combination of good structure with a painterly style. He studied at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and after serving 3 years in the US Army, returned to graduate from UC Berkeley with a BFA. Working in architecture illustration and painting in competitions have won him many awards. In June 2009 he was invited to teach a workshop in Paris on his techniques for architectural watercolors to an organization of architects. He continues to teach in Paris every other year. Stewart is President of the Mid-Atlantic Plein-Air Painters Association, He exhibits his paintings in juried and gallery exhibitions throughout the US. He was a Grand Prize Winner of the prestigious Easton Plein air Festival, Plein Air magazine’s Grand Prize Salon and a featured artist in McBride Gallery’s: “Rising Stars: 10 Artists to Watch.” Stewart is a member of the American Impressionists Society, a signature member of the National Watercolor Society, the American Watercolor Society and past President of The American Society of Architectural Illustrators.
Susan Lynn
Rockport, Maryland
A nationally recognized artist, Susan Lynn’s paintings are frequently described as poetic, lyrical, luminous and serene. While an accomplished watercolorist, in recent years she has added oils to her repertoire, expanding the creative possibilities of her work. Susan participates in many of the top juried and invitational plein air events in the US, and among her many awards is the coveted Elta Joyce Murphey Grand Prize at En Plein Air Texas 2020. Susan is a Signature Member of American Women Artists and the National Watercolor Society, and is an Artist Member of the historic Salmagundi Club New York.
Suzanne Morris
Richmond, Virginia
Working in an alla prima method, using broken color, and expressive brushwork, Suzanne Morris uses a limited palette to create harmonious oil paintings that tell a story of a particular time and place. She is drawn to ordinary scenes that are magically transformed by the light falling across them. Her award winning paintings have earned her signature status with ASMA, PAPNM, PAAC, and WAOW. She has mounted at least one solo gallery show every year since she began painting full time. Her work has been featured in Southwest Art, Fine Art Connoisseur, Plein Air, and American Art Collector magazines.
Thomas Bucci
Camden, Maine
Watercolorist, Thomas BUCCI, living in Camden Maine has a Degree in Graphic Design and a Masters of Architecture. After 8 years as an architect, he began working full-time as a plein air painter. Selected awards include Best Watercolor, Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum Award, Best Architectural Award, Alumni Award at Plein Air Easton, Jurors Award-Olmsted Plein Air Invitational, John N Lewis Memorial Award- Salmagundi Club’s Annual Members Show, Edgar A Whitney Memorial Award of Excellence at the Transparent Watercolor Society of America. His work has been featured in Plein Air Magazine and Fine Art Connoisseur.
Vlad Duchev
Baltimore, Maryland
The artist was born in1965 in Ukraine. At 8, he entered art school in the small town of Bila-Tserkov starting his journey as a painter. At 14, under pressure from his musical family he studied at Music College of Zhytomyr, Music Academy of Kharkiv, and National Conservatory of Ukraine in Kyiv for classical performance, all the while studying painting. In1994 with an unstable situation in Ukraine he moved his family to the USA. Following the sudden death of his beloved brother in 2015, and after 20 years, he returned to his passion and today paints daily. Duchev, an oil and acrylic artist focuses on landscapes, cityscapes, and everything around the water.