This Year's Selection Juror: Nancy Tankersley
Nancy Tankersley began her career as a portraitist and later entered the gallery scene with figurative paintings of people at work and at leisure. Expanding on her people at work series, in the past five years the artist has actively painted the working watermen of the Chesapeake Bay. In 2019 she will be the Featured Artist at the Waterfowl Festival in Easton, Maryland. She enjoys painting all subjects including landscape, still life and portraiture.
Active in the current plein air movement, and a founder of Plein Air Easton, she travels worldwide participating in competitions, judging and teaching. In 2018 and 2019 she was invited to be an instructor and demonstrator at the Plein Air Convention and released two instructional videos with Lilliedahl Videos. In 2016 and 2017 she was invited to exhibit at the prestigious Masters Exhibition at the Salmagundi Club in NYC. Recent honors include Award of Excellence at the 2018 American Impressionist Society National Juried Exhibition, Best Architectural Painting at 2018 Plein Air Easton, Best of Show at Parrsboro, Nova Scotia International Plein Air 2018, Best of Show at the Lighthouse Plein Air Festival 2017 and the Dickinson Award for Best Painting by a Signature Member of the American Impressionist Society 2016 Annual Juried Exhibit.
She is a Signature Member of the American Impressionist Society, the American Society for Marine Art, and the Mid-Atlantic Plein Air Painters and also holds memberships in the California Arts Club, the Washington Society for Landscape Painters and the Salmagundi Club. Founder and Director of the Easton Studio, a workshops facility begun in Easton in 2010, the artist mentors and teaches there and internationally, and also hosts nationally known teachers for painting workshops. www.nancytankersley.com
Active in the current plein air movement, and a founder of Plein Air Easton, she travels worldwide participating in competitions, judging and teaching. In 2018 and 2019 she was invited to be an instructor and demonstrator at the Plein Air Convention and released two instructional videos with Lilliedahl Videos. In 2016 and 2017 she was invited to exhibit at the prestigious Masters Exhibition at the Salmagundi Club in NYC. Recent honors include Award of Excellence at the 2018 American Impressionist Society National Juried Exhibition, Best Architectural Painting at 2018 Plein Air Easton, Best of Show at Parrsboro, Nova Scotia International Plein Air 2018, Best of Show at the Lighthouse Plein Air Festival 2017 and the Dickinson Award for Best Painting by a Signature Member of the American Impressionist Society 2016 Annual Juried Exhibit.
She is a Signature Member of the American Impressionist Society, the American Society for Marine Art, and the Mid-Atlantic Plein Air Painters and also holds memberships in the California Arts Club, the Washington Society for Landscape Painters and the Salmagundi Club. Founder and Director of the Easton Studio, a workshops facility begun in Easton in 2010, the artist mentors and teaches there and internationally, and also hosts nationally known teachers for painting workshops. www.nancytankersley.com
2021 Awards Judge: Torrey Green Stroud
Torrey Green Stroud began her 36 year career as a gallery owner in New Bern, North Carolina, as a partner of City Art Gallery which was located in a mid-20th century car dealership directly across the street from the Farmers Market, the site of Plein Air New Bern. Serving as a board member of the Craven Arts Council and Gallery, and member of the exhibits committee, Stroud subsequently founded City Art Gallery with several other committee members. After twelve years, Stroud acquired the gallery, moving it to Greenville, North Carolina, where she represents established regional and national artists and craftspeople. Eight to ten shows are held annually in the gallery, with the current exhibit featuring nationally recognized plein air painter, Kim English of Goshen, Kentucky, along with Amy Dixon of Denver, Colorado. Stroud works with both private and corporate collectors nationwide. She received her BA from UNC-Chapel Hill and her MAEd from East Carolina University.
