Introducing “T h e 3 0 0 f o r 3 0 0 P r o j e c t”
Next Launch - Before the holidays!
Pam and I will be restarting this project by mid November of 2025 with a launch of new paintings available for the holidays. This project is an ongoing project until we reach 300!
Experience the beauty of outdoor painting at Atlanta’s 12th Annual Olmsted Plein Air Invitational, April 18-26, 2026. Enjoy stunning artwork, a relaxing atmosphere, and the chance to find unique, original pieces to add to your art collection.
We invite you to take a look at the wonderfully talented, exceptional artists competing in this year’s competition. Coming from all over the country (and internationally!), the artists will be painting our local scenery…rivers, farmland, marine views, and gardens, competing for over $25,000 in prize money as part of the 2026 Heart of the River Collection. View the collection at The Fine Arts Museum of Gloucester, June 15th through the 27th. Thirty highly acclaimed and award-winning plein air artists will participate.
The David Lussier Gallery Christams Show will run from November 29-December 28. More information to come about this great holiday show.
Cape Ann Plein Air 2025
October 4-11
Cape Ann Massachusetts
35 Artists - $20,000 in Awards
Plein Air Litchfield 2025
September 30 - October 5
Litchfield CT
33 Artists - $8500 in Awards
Paint for Preservation
Cape Elizabeth Land Trust
Cape Elizabeth Maine
30+ Artists Participating
Fundraiser Auction
Gloucester Arts Festival
June 6-14
30 Artists
David Lussier Gallery
Season Opening Reception
Saturday May 3, 2025
4:00-6:00 PM
1 Front Street, Rollinsford, NH Suite #467
Saturday November 23 & Sunday November 24
10:00AM till 5:00 PM both days.
Come see our working space and explore what’s available. We’ll have lots of paintings, oil sketches and painting demos for you to look at. We are a part of the Artists of Salmon Falls Mills and so, along with our studio space, there will be dozens of artists at the Salmon Falls Mills opening their doors for this 2 day event in the Upper Mill and Lower Mill Buildings. This year, there will be food available in the Lower Mill by Friends of the Library, HomeGrown Eats, and the Pretzel Company! Plenty of parking is available in Upper Mill lot or head down to the water view parking near the Library in Lower Mill!
Part of the AIS National Exhibition Weekly Agenda
09/27/2024
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Location
Rockport, Massachusetts
Spend the morning in a guided painting exercise. The artist instructor will start with a short demo followed by individual and group instruction as you paint.
All registered members will receive an email a few weeks prior to the event for you to select which artists you would like to paint with and AIS will match your requests with space availability.
Instructors/Signature Members:
Eric Jacobsen AIS, David Lussier AIS, Jonathan McPhillips AIS and Jeanne Rosier Smith AIS
Location: Rockport Art Association and Museum
No required supply list. Bring your own supplies and easel.
If AIS cancels, students are given a full refund. AIS will offer a partial refund of 80% of fee if students need to cancel up to September 1. After September 1, no refunds.
‘The Road Less Traveled’ Opening Reception
Sunday 2nd of June, 2024 2-5PM
Join us for our season opening reception at the David Lussier Gallery. ‘The Road Less Traveled’ is a collection of paintings we have made as we meander our way through the backroads of New England. Light refreshments will be served.
All 24 paintings will be hung together on a wall in our gallery. It’s a site to see them all together and another reason to celebrate the holiday season!
Sunday Dec 10th
11-4PM
David Lussier Gallery
66 Wallingford Square
Kittery, Maine
Our gallery walls will be filled with small works by David & Pam and friends and family. The show will go through December 23.
David Lussier Gallery opens Saturday December 2 from 11-5PM for regular hours.
SMALL WORKS HOLIDAY OPENING is SUNDAY DEC 3, 12-4:00 PM
Light refreshments will be served.
David Lussier Gallery
66 Wallingford Square
Kittery, Maine
Be the first to preview the work for this show and walk out the gallery door with your favorite new painting under your arm!
Friday Dec 1
4-8PM
David Lussier Gallery
66 Wallingford Square
Kittery, Maine
Our theme this year are the 4 seasons of New England. David and Pam will both paint a new 6x9 painting for each of the 12 days. We will post the finished paintings on our website at the end of each day, available for immediate purchase. We will aim to post each night at 7:30PM. As in the past, the dry paintings will be shipped to you unframed and shipping is free.
Special Incentive to buy: If you purchase a set of 4 paintings, we will frame them for you free of charge. This is a giant savings. We will charge you a small shipping and handling charge of $75 to ship all 4 framed paintings anywhere in the United Sates.
Starts on Monday Nov 27 and the last painting will be painted on Friday Dec 8.
We will post completed paintings on our website daily by 7:30PM to Early Bird subscribers. Paintings will be available on our website on the 12 Day of Christmas ‘23 page the following morning.
If you wish to be added to the Early Bird list CLICK HERE.
12 Days of Christmas Paintings Completion Party
All 24 paintings will be hung together on a wall in our gallery. It’s a site to see them all together and another reason to celebrate the holiday season!
Sunday Dec 10
11-4PM
David Lussier Gallery
66 Wallingford Square
Kittery, Maine
Each year LPAPA turns Laguna Beach into an outdoor painting studio,
inviting the top award-winning plein air painters from around the nation to gather
to paint the town as they compete for top cash awards and
carry on a century-old plein air painting tradition!
David is thrilled and honored to be invited back to participate in this premier plein air event.
LPAPA Gallery
414 North Coast Highway
Laguna Beach, CA 92652
(949) 376-3635
View the artwork and share in a glass of wine with gallery artists and owners David & Pamela Lussier. Friday’s 6-8PM through September. This is a free event.
We will officially kick off the 2023 season of the Seacoast Sketch Club on Saturday, June 10th.
We will officially kick off the 2023 season with ‘FRESH’. Fresh new work in a fresh new space. We’ve spent the last few months producing paintings for the gallery and we’ve changed the color of the gallery walls and gallery floor. Please join us in celebration. Public invited. We can’t wait to show you our new work!
‘Evening’16x20. Best Nocturne Award 2022 Wayne Plein Air Festival
David was invited to participate in the 15th Annual Wayne Art Center Plein Air Festival. Juror of Selection, Bryan Mark Taylor, chose David as one of 32 artists who will take part in this annual event. This is David’s 15th year of being invited.
Wayne Art Center
Davenport Gallery
Ethel Sergeant Clark Smith Gallery
Vidinghoff Gallery
413 Maplewood Avenue
Wayne, PA 19087
(610) 688-3553
This is an annual juried group exhibition. David’s painting ‘Winter Village’ 11x14 was one of 154 paintings accepted from over 1600 entries. David is a Signature Member of the American Impressionist Society.
District Gallery
5113 Kingston Pike
Knoxville, TN 37919
(865) 200-4452
Benjamin Lussier & David Lussier Duo Show
The show runs for the month of December. More info coming soon!
Once again, we will each paint a 6x9 painting for 12 straight days beginning on November 29th. The completion of the 12 days will culminate with the celebration and party on the 10th. This will be our fifth year of doing the 12 days paintings!
Twelve Days of Christmas Paintings Party-December 10th 2-6PM
Our‘SMALL WORKS HOLIDAY SHOWCASE’ exhibit in November, which will feature our work, Ben Lussier and Jennifer Simpson, and that of over 20 guest artists from David Lussier’s Art Circle. The Small Works Holiday Showcase will feature small affordable paintings for the holidays. Paintings will range in size from 6x8 to 9x12. A reception will be held on November 26, from 2-6PM with light refreshments.
Our open studio at the Salmon Falls Mills in Rollinsford will take place on November 19th and 20th. The open studio weekend will feature our ‘Sketches & Demos’ show. This is also the weekend of the Artists at Salmon Falls Mill Open Studios. The Salmon Falls Mills are made up of two large mill buildings each with 5 floors of studios and businesses. The mills are made up of painters, sculptors, photographers, jewelers, dancers, illustrators, wood turners, furniture makers and artisans and artists of all kinds. Come spend an hour, come spend a day.
Salmon Falls Mills- Studio 467, Rollinsford New Hampshire
David was invited to participate in this years event. This is the premier plein air invitational in the country. This event started all the other plein air events that are quite numerous throughout the USA today. Each year LAPAPA invites the top award-winning plein air painters from around the nation to gather to paint the town, as they compete for top cash awards and carry on a century-old plein air painting tradition.
Breaking Light 20x24 oil on linen by David Lussier
Mary Williams Fine Arts
Opening Reception & Awards Ceremony-Thursday September 15
When09/15/2022
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
LocationMary Williams Fine Art
RSVP
Join us for the opening reception of our 23rd Annual AIS National Exhibition. This is the private opening for our members, guests and the patrons of Mary Williams Fine Arts. Our annual exhibit will feature approximately 175 juried paintings by some of the top contemporary impressionist painters in the country!
Awards Judge, Huihan Liu AISM, will make brief remarks and together with AIS President/CEO Debra Joy Groesser will present awards. Meet AIS Master Kim English, AIS Master Weizhen Liang and Aaron Schuerr.
Registration appreciated but not required.
Our Grand Opening Celebration of our new gallery in Kittery Foreside. Light refreshments and a whole lot of fun! Come out and support the arts and see what we’ve been up to.
This is an annual juried group exhibition. David’s painting ‘Church Street-Waterville’ was one of 125 paintings accepted from over 1200 entries.
David has been blessed to be juried into this plein air event since winning the inaugural event in 2008. This is always a great event and a wonderful show of work created during the week by 40 artists.
David will have 9 paintings in this spring group exhibition. This is sure to be a wonderful grouping of paintings by 11 painters.
This is our soft opening for our new gallery in Kittery Foreside. Light refreshments will be served. Come out and support the arts! After our soft opening we will be open during our regular hours for the season. Hours are Wednesday through Sunday 11-7pm.
