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Plein Air Festivals have been drawing more of a following for the fifteen years that outdoor landscape painting has been retaking its place in American representational painting. Plein Air means outdoors and refers to those painters who pack up easels and supplies and head outside to capture the air of the day.
Gavin Brooks is known for her atmospheric work of the east coast of the US from Maine to Florida. The Maryland native lives along the Eastern Shore where rich sunsets color the humid evening air throughout the warmer weather. A relative newcomer to fine art, Gavin Brooks has taken on the challenge with the same vigor with which she approached her competitive surfing and floor trading on Wall Street. That she took 2 prizes at this year's event comes as no surprise.
Plein Air Easton is an annual outdoor painting event that attracts 50 plus artists from around the country to paint every July. The Academy Art Museum is located in Easton and since its beginnings in 1958 has presented nationally significant art exhibitions as well as lectures, classes, and concerts. Utrecht is a well known art supply company.
Gavin Brooks' paintings can be seen at Walls Fine Art Gallery in Wilmington, NC and the South Street Art Gallery in Easton. Gavin and paints at her home in Owens Mill and teaches workshops across the country.
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