The River Arts District (RAD) in Asheville, North Carolina has been decimated by catastrophic flooding. Most of the 26 buildings were devastated including art and the supplies and equipment used by creators. The Artists for [...]

Pat Fiorello has been painting for more than 25 years, and during that time she says, she’s been fortunate to “mostly” have felt excited to get into the studio and paint. But no one is [...]

If people cared as much about painting as they do about literature, the name Ralph Albert Blakelock might be almost as celebrated as that of Edgar Allen Poe. At an auction in 1913, Blakelock set [...]

“A complicating aspect of realist painting is that there is much that one does not or cannot know or see, yet which is immensely, obsessively interesting—and which is ultimately the whole point of painting.” Beyond [...]

Charles Hawthorne (January 8, 1872 – November 29, 1930) founded the popular Cape Cod School of Art in Provincetown, Mass. Hawthorne was famous for his fresh, observational approach to painting and for having his students [...]

Robin Caspari’s painting, “The Edge,” (above) celebrates the raw power of surging ocean waves and jagged rock with expression and skill, qualities that won it first place in the May 2022 PleinAir Salon. “In this [...]

The winners in the monthly PleinAir Salon have been announced. Taking the top spot is Thomas Kegler’s nocturne, “Mid-Summer Night, Romans 5:4,” The Biblical reference, paraphrasing, says: “Perseverance produces character, and character produces hope.” Come [...]

In this painting by Edward Gordon, we find ourselves in a fine, presumably Victorian house by the sea, perhaps somewhere on the coast of Maine. The open window looks out over a veranda overhanging the [...]

By Mitchell Albala Abstraction isn’t unique to landscape painting, but the natural world does wonderfully lend itself to the approach. When we consider nature’s range of light and her many atmospheric moods, her variety of colors, [...]