An architect and award-winning plein air painter, Vicky’s work focuses on local scenes throughout the DMV area, including DC, Maryland, and Virginia. Working primarily on location, she captures the unique atmosphere and character of each setting. Her paintings convey a strong sense of place, reflecting the energy, stories, and visual rhythms of the environments she observes. Vicky’s paintings offer an authentic and immediate response to the world around her.

Awards :

  • Plein Air Salon December 2025: Best Plein Air Watercolor.

  • Paint Ocean City 2025: Best Agriculture. Best Nocturne. 2nd place (QD)

  • Plein Air Salon January 2025: Plein Air Honorable Mention

  • Easton Plein Air 2024: 2nd place (Quickdraw)

  • Gloucester Plein Air Invitational 2024: Best Architecture

  • Suffolk Plein Air 2024: Best Historic award

  • Mid-Atlantic Regional Watercolor Exhibition 2024: Honorable Mention

  • Falls Church Plein Air 2024: People’s Choice and Honorable Mention

  • Paint Great Falls 2024: 3rd Place and Honorable Mention (Quickdraw)

  • Floyd Plein Air Biennial: Juried artist

  • Plein Air at the Arboretum 2023: 1st Place and People’s Choice awards

  • Plein Air Salon December 2023: Building Honorable Mention

  • Paint the Town Kensington 2023: 1st place (Quickdraw)

  • Easton Plein Air 2023: Annual juried artist

  • Pain Annapolis 2023: 3rd place Best of the Bay (Juried artist)

  • Easton Plein Air 2022: 3rd place (Quickdraw)

  • Paint Annapolis 2022: 2nd place (Quickdraw)

  • Paint it! Ellicott City 2022: EC250 Commemoration (Juried artist)

  • Falls Church Plein Air Festival 2022: 2nd Place

  • Paint Great Falls 2022: 2nd Place and People’s Choice

  • Paint the Town Kensington 2022: 1st place (Quickdraw)

  • Falls Church Plein Air Festival 2021: 2nd place (Quickdraw)

  • Paint Great Falls 2021: 1st place (Quickdraw), Honorable mention

  • Paint the Town Kensington 2021: 3rd place (Quickdraw)

Memberships:

  • Baltimore Watercolor Society (Signature member)

  • Potomac Valley Watercolorists

  • Northern Virginia Plein Air Artists

  • Montgomery Art Association

  • Loudoun Sketch Club

  • National Gallery of Art Copyist Program