Susan Lynn’s paintings have been described by many as poetic, lyrical, luminous, and serene.
Primarily a landscape painter, Susan is moved by the evening light hitting a stand of grasses, the
movement of water, shadows crossing a winding road, but most of all by the the mysteries of light
and atmosphere. A native Kansan, she earned her BFA from Kansas State University in 1985. The
early part of Susan’s career was spent working as an architectural illustrator. It was, as it turned out,
a fantastic training ground for a realist landscape painter, honing her understanding of perspective,
light, and color. Eventually she gradually shifting her focus entirely to fine art, and her work has
now been featured over twenty times in national art publications, including Plein Air Magazine, Fine
Art Connoisseur, and International Artist Magazine.
Active in today’s plein air movement, Susan regularly participates in some of the nation’s top juried
and invitational plein air competitions. She believes that painting the landscape en plein air
(outdoors, from life) affords her a keener awareness of the unique qualities of light that give one a
sense of place, and strengthens her feeling of connection to the natural world. She takes the studies,
the memories, and the sensory experiences of that practice back into the studio to draw on for her
larger works. Her passion for painting en plein air fuels her passion for travel, making annual
painting trips to Maine, South Carolina, Vermont, and the south of France. Those trips are often
made in the company of treasured artist friends, inspiring her with their talents and adding the extragift of camaraderie to every adventure. This year she looks forward to adding Spain and Sicily to
her travels.
Accomplished in both watercolor and oil, she has earned signature membership status in the
American Society of Marine Artists, American Women Artists, National Watercolor Society,

Outdoor Painters Society, and is an elected Artist Member of the historic Salmagundi Club. Her
extensive list of awards include the Elta Joyce Murphey Grand Prize at En Plein Air Texas, the
Michael Willing Memorial Award from the National Watercolor Society, and the American Women
Artists’s Award for Distinguished Achievement in Landscape Painting.
In 2018, Susan moved from her native Midwest to Rockport, Massachusetts, having fallen in love
with both the beauty of Cape Ann and with fellow Rockport artist John Caggiano. In 2019, she
opened her own gallery, the Susan Lynn Gallery & Studio on Main Street in Rockport, and currently
serves on the Board of Governors of the Rockport Art Association & Museum.

A native of Brooklyn, New York, John relocated to Rockport, Massachusetts, opening a gallery on Bearskin Neck in 1981. He is a Signature Artist Member of the American Society of Marine Artists, American Impressionists Society, National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society, Salmagundi Club; Academic Artists, Hudson Valley Art, Lyme Art, North Shore Arts, and Rockport Art – Associations, the last of which he served as President and a Board member for 16 years. He also holds memberships in the Mid-Atlantic Plein Air Painters Association, Maine Plein Air Painters, Oil Painters of America, and the Outdoors Painters Society.

He travels the US and abroad painting in a colorful “Impressionistic-Realism” style utilizing both brush and palette knife. Among his publications are A Gallery of Marine Art; Monhegan: The Artists’ Island; and The Best of Oil Painting, an artist profile in PleinAir Magazine, an online feature in Plein Air Today plus twenty-four editorial features in both PleinAir and Fine Art Connoisseur. His latest work is in the February 2024 Fine Art Connoisseur editorial, AVIAN ART TAKES FLIGHT. Among his many awards are the Life on the Farm Award from Easton Plein Air, the Alden Bryan Landscape Award at the Academic Artist Association Annual Juried Exhibition, and the Charles Movalli Gold Medal from the Annual Juried Land and Light Exhibition – Bryan Memorial Gallery, (VT). He has also won the 1^st Place Stobart Foundation Award at the Mystic International, Texas Ranchland, (twice), and Best Architectural Awards at En Plein Air Texas, and Best Artist Over 65 in the Plein Air Salon of PleinAir Magazine. Most recently he won Best in Show at the Annual Juried Members Exhibition at Lyme Art Association and Top 100 Artists in the January 2024 PleinAir Magazine’s Plein Air Salon Competition. John attends eight to ten plein air events each year, recently adding Friends of the Smokies Plein Air in Tennessee.

John Caggiano’s greatest joy is painting with friends and colleagues who live and breathe art.

Landscape painter D. Eleinne Basa calls the East Coast home. Having early classical training since she was a child , she furthered her art training after college by taking several workshops and diving into the competitive Plein Air competition scene where she earned numerous awards. Today she spends more time in her studio and travelling to scenic locations to find inspiration and paintings.  She has been working as a full time artist since 2004.

Eleinne’s evocative landscapes has been shown in important Invitational and Juried shows throughout the Country, such as The ARC Salon exhibition in Sotheby’s NY, NY,  The Collectors Reserve at the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa , OK , the California Art Club’s Gold Medal Exhibition and Sale at the Autry National Center in Los Angeles, CA, The ‘On Location in Malibu’ Landscape show at the Frederick R. Weisman Museum in Malibu, Ca,   the National Cowboy Museum Miniature show in Tulsa OK,  the CM Russell Museum in Great Falls, MT,  and the Brinton Museum in Sheridan, Wy.  In 2016, and 2018 She was invited to be Part of the American Masters Exhibition at the Salmagundi club in NY, NY.

  She also has won multiple awards for her work, most notable is the  $15,000 Grand prize of the first Plein Air Salon hosted by Plein Air Magazine , Art of the West Award of Excellence at the California Art Club Gold medal show in 2012, Best in Show, Artist Choice award at the 2018 American Masters at the Salmagundi Club, and People’s choice Award at the 2018 Inaugural American Tonalist Society show.  Her work has also been recognized as a finalist in the 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020 ARC Salon online competition. In this most recent 2020 ARC Salon Exhibition, she has garnered two awards , the Artist Library Award and Third Place in the Landscape Category.   Her work was also selected to be inclued in the first ever ARC and Sothebys Online Auction of Important Contemporary Art.

   Her Works has been featured and shown in several magazine publications including Fine Art Connoisseur , Plein Air Magazine where she has been on the cover in 2012 ,  Art of the West,  Southwest Art, American Art Collector,  Western Art Collector,  and Western Art and Architecture

   Eleinne finds inspiration in the work of 19th-century American painters such as tonalist George Inness as well as in the delicate, muted landscapes by Spanish artist Emilio Sánchez-Perrier.  Among her favorite Landscape painters is the American Thomas Moran,  Emile Carlsen , George Inness and Hugh Bolton Jones.

Member:

California Art Club – Out of State Artist Member

Salmagundi Club

American Tonalist Society- Founding Member

Permanent Collections

Academy Art Museum, Easton, MD

The Cherokee Club, Atlanta, GA

CM Russell Museum, Great Falls, MT