Artist and Collector Profiles

We’d like to congratulate Hui Li for winning Overall First Place in the February 2023 PleinAir Salon, judged by ...

Created in a diverse range of wet and dry media, Jon Sours’s subjects have a freshness that sets them apart from their abstract surroundings.

We’d like to congratulate our latest winner of the monthly PleinAir Salon. This round was judged by Kevin Macpherson, and the winner is ...

"For me, painting is synonymous with seeing. I have always got great pleasure through the eyes." Coming out of our teachers, the places we loved, and how we find ourselves now...

Ray Hassard tired of the painstaking nature of painting in a photorealist style and searched for something more immediate. He turned to plein air painting, and a new world opened for him.

Duffy Sheridan on his portrait paintings, his Bahá’í faith, and more.

We’d like to congratulate this Western artist for winning Overall First Place in the September 2023 PleinAir Salon, judged by William A. Suys, Jr.

Painters often have an acute awareness of their surroundings, constantly taking in the sights, sounds, and emotions of unique places before translating those experiences into beautiful images. Artist Dean Larson has not only mastered this process, he has infused his paintings with an experimental nature that could defy categorization.

Please help us congratulate the Overall First Place Winner in the May 2023 PleinAir Salon.

Most of my work features circles, because I believe that the human brain has a deep psychological connection to circles.