Meg Walsh - About the Artist

Award winning artist Meg Walsh combines technical skills acquired through years of studio work with acute observation of nature. She can often be found painting along the C&O Canal and Potomac River or in the fields, coves, and marshes of Maryland's Eastern Shore. Meg says, "dealing with the challenges of rapidly changing light forces me to focus on the essence of a scene. I like the sense of immediacy it lends to my landscapes."

She has been juried into several national painting competitions, including the plein air festivals in Wayne, PA, and Easton, MD, where she won an honorable mention in 2007. She currently serves on the board of the Washington Society of Landscape Painters, a 40 member organization founded in 1913, one of the nation's oldest active artists associations.

Meg’s paintings can be found in the permanent collections of the National Institutes of Health, Georgetown University Hospital, and Martha Jefferson Hospital in Charlottesville, Virginia. Her painting “Belted Cows” was purchased by the Academy Art Museum in Easton, Maryland.

Awards

* First Place, “Local Color,” juried artists of the Delmarva Peninsula, Plein Air Easton! Competition and Arts Festival, July 2010, Easton, MD

* Honorable Mention, “Let There Be Light,” All Media Exhibit, January 2009,

Art League Gallery, Alexandria, VA

* Honorable Mention, “Scapes” International Landscape Exhibit, August 2008,

Art League Gallery, Alexandria, VA

* Honorable Mention, Plein Air Easton! July 2007, Easton, MD

* First Place, Mid-Shore Plein Air Competition, June 2007, Easton, MD

* Honorable Mention, “All Media Show,” September 2005,

Art League Gallery, Alexandria, VA

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