Jeff Markowsky was born in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada. When he wasn’t playing hockey as a child, he was drawing, painting or sculpting figures with leftover clay found in his mother’s pottery studio. His formal education as a painter began in graduate school with Gregory Crane and then with Frank Mason at the Art Students League in New York City. In 2022 Markowsky, “The Plein Air Nomad” stepped away from full time academia and is currently traveling across North America painting, living a nomadic life. He also Illustrates and serves as an Ambassador for the outdoor recreational clothing company American Backcountry. Markowsky was honored to win the Museum Purchase Award at 2022 Plein Air Texas in San Angelo Texas. In the same year he was awarded Best of Show, 2nd Place and Artist’s Choice at Central City Plein Air in Colorado. He won the Grand Prize at the 3rd Annual Saint Augustine Plein Air Festival in 2019. He was the 2018 Grand Prize winner of the Lighthouse Art Center 5th Annual Plein Air Festival in Tequesta Florida and returned in 2019 as judge. He is a member of both The American Impressionist Society and The Oil Painters of America. He was juried in to the 2023 AIS National and Small Works Exhibitions and was juried in to the 2023 OPA Eastern Regional Exhibition in Beverly McNeil Gallery in Birmingham, Alabama. His work is rooted in traditional representational art with an equal love and appreciation for both the human form and the landscape.