Plein Air Artists

Jeff Markowsky was born in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada and now lives in Savannah Georgia. His education as a painter began in graduate school with Gregory Crane and then with Frank Mason at the Art Students League in NYC. Markowsky was the 2018 Grand Prize winner of the 5th Annual…

Tim Kelly, a lifelong Baltimore area resident, earned a BA from Maryland Institute, College of Art in 1992. A freelance career followed for about a decade until life changes placed him on the Plein air path. He has been a frequent participant in Plein air events throughout the Mid Atlantic…

Catherine Hillis loves the way light plays across the landscape. The artist paints from life and travels constantly to work en Plein air, enjoying the immediacy of painting on site. She maintains a working studio on Saint Simons Island, GA, and her paintings are in corporate, personal, and museum collections…

Born in the Philippines, where he got his training and license as an architect, Orville’s first passion was art. He started doodling with watercolors in grade school but pursued a more technical career in architecture. Migrated to the US in 2001, he worked as an architectural designer, illustrator, 3D renderer,…

Gravitating to art at an early age, Kathleen’s formal art education began in high school. She went on to earn a BFA in Printmaking from Carnegie Mellon University. After graduation, she did illustrations, graphics, and courtroom drawings for an ABC-TV affiliate in Pittsburgh then worked for an in-house design firm…

Lori Cusick was born in Port Jervis, New York, and fell in love with art early on. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in communication design from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. For many years, Lori led a double life, juggling a successful career as an editorial design director…

The Art of Krystal W. Brown is a painted view of the world and how she reveals it originating from a need to create and a love for getting lost in the process and place. Her oil paintings celebrate the magnificence of people, places, and moments while holding space for…

Olena Babak is an award-winning, classically-trained artist, whose landscapes and figurative works can be found in galleries, public, and private collections in the U.S. and abroad. Some of her selected awards: Best of Show in Tilghman and St. Michaels, Easton Plein Air, Best Marine Cape Ann Plein Air, Artists’ Choice…

Marc Anderson was born and raised in the small, rural town of Wild Rose, Wisconsin. He and his three brothers spent the majority of their youth exploring the Wisconsin countryside, which fostered a deep appreciation for the outdoors and a kinship with the natural world. Marc developed an aptitude for…