PAF 2025
David Savellano is a native Californian artist who works primarily en plein air (outdoors), creating watercolor paintings that capture everyday scenes—on the street, in nature, and wherever else his portable easel takes him. Although largely self-taught as a watercolor painter, he credits his 40 years as a practicing architect with…
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Born and raised in northern New Jersey, Crista began painting in oils in 1989 under the instruction of John Phillip Osborne at the Ridgewood Art Institute in Ridgewood, NJ. She graduated from the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts in 2000, receiving a Bachelors Degree of fine arts painting, and…
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My name is Carlos Maldonado and I am an artist from Iowa City. My artistic journey has been defined by a dedication to plein air painting. I work in several different mediums but primarily acrylic and gouache. With over two decades of artistic experience I embarked on a full-time painting…
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Mark Shasha (b. 1961) is an award-winning American artist, author and educator. His work has appeared in museums, galleries and publications for 40 years. His paintings are found in public and private collections around the world. And millions have read his children’s books which he has written and illustrated. After…
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Carl Bretzke is a contemporary realist oil painter who is known for his original compositional choices, realistic light effects, and diversity in subject matter, ranging from plein air landscapes to more complex city scenes, often after dark. The Washington Post once described his work as “simultaneously intimate and detached…The artist’s…
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Lon Brauer is an American artist known for his work in both figure and plein air landscape. A frequent award winner, he is very much a painter’s painter, Lon explores the abstract within the representational world with his aggressive use of paint or pastel on surface. Figure, landscape, still life…
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I love to paint and am always painting, even when I don’t have a brush in my hand, I can’t get away from it, it’s that simple. When I’m in my studio and run out of ideas I know it’s time to get out and do some Plein Air painting;…
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An architect and renowned architectural illustrator, Richard Sneary has over the last 3 years also begun painting en Plein air in watercolor. His background as an architect/illustrator of architecture often compels him to include something of the built environment, whether it’s a town square, back yards, an alley, old derelict…
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Kari Ganoung Ruiz was raised at the edge of The Finger Lakes National Forest in New York State, setting the stage for her deep connection to the natural landscape. Kari became a full time artist in 2014, focusing on painting outside from life. She now travels the country capturing the…
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Antwan started his career as a caricaturist. Learning the art of portraiture as an adolescent, he put himself through art school drawing people face-to-face. Antwan studied art in Southern California in a classical atelier. Under teachers with extensive experience in their fields, Antwan’s aspirations were leading him toward concept art…
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