Chrissy Pahucki

Chrissy was born and raised in the rural Hudson Valley town of Goshen, New York.

Chrissy began working as professional artist in 2011. She began painting at plein air festivals during the summers while teaching art full time to middle school students the other ten months of the year. She has three children who would vie for which summer plein air festivals they each got to go to, since bringing just one child to each event was plenty to handle. The rule was nobody leaves a painting location until mom is done (or gives up). They often spent their time on location painting  along side of her.

As Chrissy's love for plein air painting expanded, so too did her list of professional accomplishments. She has been accepted into prestigious shows around the country and has garnered awards including Best of Show at Sloatsburg Plein Air, Best of Show and People's Choice at Morristown Plein Air, and Second Place at the Hudson Valley Plein Air festival. Her paintings have been featured on the cover on Canvas Magazine twice.

Chrissy is the founder of the Hudson Valley Plein Air Festival and PlenAir.Store. She currently resides in New Hampton, New York with her husband Brian and her college age children Ben and Cora.

"I started painting en plein air in 2006 by joining a painting group that went to local farms and wildlife preserves on the weekends. I was hooked immediately. While I’ve always enjoyed hiking, camping, canoeing and other outdoor activities, trying to capture my location on canvas within a few hours was the immersive break I needed from the work week. A few years later I saw a flier in the Adirondacks for a plein air painting festival and I signed up. I had so much fun painting on location and being around the other painters, that I applied for more painting events the next summer. I now paint professionally, competing in national plein air competitions all across the country. I paint mostly natural landscapes with acrylics or oils. Being a nature geek, I am especially drawn to the way local bodies of water affect the geology, color and vegetation of the environment."