Lopez Island Artist, Steven R. Hill has been juried into two major national plein air painting competitions in 2014.

The 21st Annual Carmel Art Festival was held May 14-18 at Carmel, California and the Zion National Park Plein Air Painting Invitational will be Nov. 2-9. Both are premier western U.S. painting competitions. Hill, whose work is pictured above, won a major purchase award in 2013 at Zion and will be participating at Carmel for his fourth time, since 2009. Hill also has an art opening at Agora Gallery in New York June 10, where he will showcase nine plein air paintings from the San Juan Islands, the Pacific Northwest and Europe.

An active pastel/plein air painting workshop instructor, Hill is traveling to Missouri for a three-day workshop and will be making another trip to Korcula Island, Croatia, to teach a 10-day workshop in September. He will also be leading a one-week workshop in Bruges, Belgium, in 2016.