ARTIST STATEMENT
Penny Billings works in a unique style of contemporary realism. Her award-winning luminous oil paintings capture the constantly shifting light and mood of today’s varied American landscape.
Her oil paintings have been recognized nationally and internationally in juried art competitions and commercial art gallery installations, where they have exhibited in one-artist and group shows, including exhibitions at The National Arts Club and The Salmagundi Club in New York City, and at the Boston International Fine Art Show, The Copley Society of Art and the Massachusetts State House in Boston.
Inspired by the American tonalist master painters who idealized the 19th century countryside, Billings’s atmospheric oil paintings celebrate the grace and serenity of the contemporary American landscape. They grace fine art collections in both traditional and contemporary spaces throughout the United States and internationally.