Featured Artwork: Jessie Rasche

Jessie Rasche: These paintings are an expression of Jessie’s love of animals, and her fascination with connection: Connection between people, between animals, and with...
oil painting of bright blue ocean with inlet

Featured Artwork: Jane Knighton

Jane Knighton: Jane considers herself a lifelong artist always learning and evolving in both her art and how she experiences life. As a retired...

Featured Artwork: Marc Anderson

Marc Anderson: Maritime themes have become prevalent in Marc Anderson’s work in recent years. Many of his boat paintings will be featured at his...

Featured Artwork: Kami Mendlik

Kami Mendlik: “Red-Winged Black Birds Sing” was inspired by the marsh outside her studio window, where the red-winged black birds sing their songs. “The Stream...

Featured Artwork: Antwan Ramar

Antwan Ramar: “Painting in those golden hours of fleeting light is one of my favorite practices. Every scene looks stunning at those special times....

Featured Artwork: Lynn Dunbar

Lynn Dunbar: Colorful, expressive, brushstrokes ‘capture the spirit of plein air painting’ in Lynn Dunbar’s oil canvases. She enjoys travel, hiking and painting in...
oil painting of shadow path covered with trees

Featured Artwork: Robert Green

Robert Green: As a lifelong Alaskan, Bob dedicates his artwork to capturing images of his beloved state. Bob works exclusively in oil. He learned his...
Brienne Brown, “Day for Exploring,” watercolor, 20 x 16 in, $2700, Available through the Illume Gallery of Fine Art

Featured Artwork: Brienne Brown

Brienne Brown: In May, Brienne returned to her home state of Utah to paint with friends.  Surrounded by brilliant red rock colors, she painted...

Featured Artwork: Jack McGowan

Jack McGowan: Jack lives in Santa Fe and paints New Mexico and Colorado. He’s a Founding Member of Milagro Painters www.milagropainters.com. Their Painted Stories...

Featured Artwork: Deborah McAllister

Deborah McAllister: The plein air landscapes by Deborah McAllister feature work done at beautiful U.S. locations during her travels. When at home in Cottonwood,...
pastel painting of grass overfilling the canvas with a narrow river flowing through, curving the edge of river bend

Featured Artwork: Lamya Deeb

Lamya Deeb: The lowly irrigation ditch is a subject I often revisit. Along with the compositional possibilities they offer, they give me a sense...
oil painting of human subjects seated around an older gentleman, looking distraught and giving him a cup to drink from

Featured Artwork: Brian Keeler, OPA, PSA

Brian Keeler: Expressing and describing the beauty of light has been the focus of Brian Keeler's career in painting. Depicting the "topography of light"...

Featured Artwork: Lee MacLeod

Lee MacLeod: Lee MacLeod is looking forward to participating in this year’s Estes Valley Plein Air event in Colorado in August. As he says,...
casein painting of trees on farmland with cows on the right

Featured Artwork: Krentz Johnson

Krentz Johnson: Creature Comforts from Santa Ysabel Preserve, Desert Flames in Anza Borrego Desert and Swim Club Paint San Clemente Competition have one thing...

Featured Artwork: Debra Joy Groesser

Debra Joy Groesser: “Late Day Reverie, Narada Lake” (16x20 oil) will be included in the American Impressionist Society’s 23rd Annual National Juried Exhibition, opening...

Featured Artwork: Nancie King Mertz

Nancie King Mertz: All works are by Master and Eminent Pastelist, Nancie King Mertz. She was the May 2022 Guest of Honor of Art...
oil painting of pillars underneath a bridge in daylight

Featured Artwork: Antwan Ramar

Antwan Ramar: I absolutely love Plein Air, but man, can it start to look BORING at times. I think the beauty of Plein Air...
oil painting of red mule barn with vines growing on it

Featured Artwork: Brenda Pinnick

Brenda Pinnick: Mule Barn was painted during the Blue Ridge Mountain Arts Assoc. annual Plein Air event where it won Best of Show. This...
oil painting of moped parked

Featured Artwork: Manon Sander

Manon Sander: One of Manon Sander’s personality traits is her joie de vivre, represented in her colorful impressionistic paintings she creates with joy to...
acrylic painting of shrimp boat in evening sunset

Featured Artwork: Farley Lewis

Farley Lewis: Farley loves capturing the real look of sunlight, whether it’s a trawler at sunset, or rows of harvested corns stalks in early...