Adam Houston

The painting features a view of a shed and a country road near our house in Watkinsville. I spent a good bit of 2020 teaching my daughter to drive on these backroads and was able to soak in the scenery when I was not frantically…

This painting features a small country road outside of our home in Watkinsville, GA. Something about the scene drew me in and the loneliness of the road. I started painted this in January and had no idea how prescient the concept of “stop ahead” would…

My family spent Spring Break in some cabins along the Hiawassee River outside of Young Harris, Georgia a couple years back. It was cold but Spring was definitely on the way and it was so much fun to paint out in the country. This painting…

Here’s a painting of a boat that’s out of water on St. Simons Island. In the Gascoigne Bluff area of the island there’s an spot that’s basically a parking lot where a number of boats are out of water and waiting to get back in….

Here’s a Plein Air piece from St. Simons Island. On the East Beach side of the island there are paths to the beach, but this particular one by 4th Street seemed to have been forgotten. I walked for a while trying to find the coast…

Here’s a Plein Air piece featuring a field near Duluth, GA. It was painted as part of the Paint Duluth event in 2017. The odd thing about Plein Air events is that when the sun comes up you just go paint. There are really only…

I was in England a couple of years ago and we spent a good bit of time in the Cotswolds. We stayed near the Minchinhampton Common which is managed by the National Trust, and one wild feature of that area is that the cows go wherever…

Here’s a painting of a barn not too far from where we live. I had every intention of painting this on-site but it was so incredibly windy that there was no way to make it happen. I’m talking a “blow your easel over immediately” type…