
Crystal Moll
Once I started painting on location, I never went back to the studio. My cityscape paintings often take days or weeks and sometimes are finished in the next season. I’m drawn by color, especially how it changes with light and shadow. My ‘slow’ process allows me participation in only a couple of plein air events a year.
Articles: Plein Air Magazine, Outdoor Painter. Voyage Baltimore.
Awards: Mount Vernon Place Plein Air Show 2024. Best Architectural & Historic Preservation Awards / Paint Annapolis Naval Academy Award.
Biography
Once I started painting on location, I never went back to the studio. I mostly paint cityscapes and enjoy working directly from life. Sometimes I may complete a small work in one sitting, but most works require many sittings over days or weeks, sometimes pieces are completed the following season. Drawn to color especially as it is bathed in light, investigating the colors’ reaction as it is warmed in sunlight or cooled in shadows draws me to the subjects I paint. Because of my ‘slow’ process, I only allow myself to participate in only a couple of plein air events a year.
Articles: Plein Air Magazine, Outdoor Painter. Voyage Baltimore. Baltimore Magazine
Recent plein air events / awards
- Mount Vernon Place Plein Air Show 2024. Best Architectural & Historic
Preservation Awards - Washington Society of Landscape Painters Members Award 2024. Second
Place - Plein Air Easton 2023/ Juried into 2024
- Paint Annapolis 2023 Paint Annapolis 2022. Naval Academy Award (2025)
- Paint OC 2021/ 2018/ 2017 / 2016. First, Honorable, Third Place, Best use of
Light - Harford Plein Air 2021 Second Prize
- Mount Vernon Place Plein Air 2019. Best Architectural
- Easton Plein Air 2024 / 2019 / 2016 / 2014 / 2013. 2-time winner of Joy and
Exuberance, Honorable Mention
In 2009 I opened the Crystal Moll Gallery in Baltimore MD
Artist Statement
Once I started painting on location, I never went back to the studio. My cityscape paintings often take days or weeks and sometimes are finished in the next season. I’m drawn by color, especially how it changes with light and shadow. Because of my ‘slow’ process, I only allow myself participation in only a couple of plein air events a year. Articles include Plein Air Magazine, Outdoor Painter.