Yelena Snovsky - Fine Art
  • Home
  • News
  • Landscape
  • Still Life
  • Portrait
  • Galleries
  • Contact Info
    • Archive

Biography

Picture

Yelena Snovsky holds Signature Status in the National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society. Her work has been juried into events around the country, including Oil Painters of America (OPA), American Impressionist Society (AIS),  National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society (NOAPS) as well as many National Invitational Plein Air Events, such as "Easels at Fredericks", "Paint Annapolis" and others. Her paintings received numerous awards including second prize at the Salmagundi Club, NYC, "Still Life Honorable Mention" at 28th National Juried Exhibition of Oil  Painters of America. Her art work also was published in the book “ 100 painters of Mid-Atlantic “, in the magazine "American Art Collector", in “2012 Mountain Plein Air calendar” and others. 
​Yelena started out her career  as a technical illustrator after graduating university in Belarus with degrees in engineering and graphic art. After moving to U.S. she worked as an advertising illustrator for many years, creating images for various local businesses throughout the New Jersey area. Yelena enjoys painting in oil on canvas. Her art work includes
landscapes, seascapes, portraits and still life. Yelena is especially interested in plein air painting and the idea of sharing her instant impression of the moment, in the moment. Most of her landscapes are painted entirely outdoors, in natural light. 


​Education

M.S. in Civil Engineering - Belarussian State University of Transport, Gomel, Republic of Belarus

4 year degree in Graphic and Fine Art - Belarussian State University of Transport, Gomel, Republic of Belarus

2009 Ridgewood Art Institute, study with internationally recognized painters and teachers John Phillip Osborne and Danielle Wexler a classical methology and the "prismatic palette" that has its origins in the French Barbizon School.
Valentin Serov, Childe Hassam,  Mark Hanson, Jon Redmond and other  artists had a strong influence on Yelena.
2013 Annual Landscape Painting Workshop with Mark Hanson. Longmont, CO. 09/2-09/62014 
2014 "Sound Fundamentals of Painting the Landscape" workshop with Matt Smith. Lambertwille, NJ 05/8-05/1
2016 Workshop with Jon Redmond

​

​Awards:
  •  2021 Oil Painters of America (OPA) Eastern Regional Exhibition, painting Sunset” won Seascape  Award of Excellence 
  •  2019   Oil Painters of America (OPA) 28th National Show 
        Painting "Cheese and Wine" has won Honorable Mention
  •  2018  Fall Auction. Salmagundi Club, NYC
          Painting "Sunset" has won "Hobart Nichols SCNY Award"
  •  2018   Salmagundi Club, NYC 
           SCNY  SYLVIA MARIA GLESMANN FLORAL EXHIBITION
         Painting "Flower Day" has won "Certificate of Merit" 
  •  2017  Guild of Creative Art, Shrewsbury, NJ
         25thAnnual Open Juried Show
         Painting "Ready to Sail" won Caivano Memorial Award for oil
  •  2017  SCNY Nautical Exhibition & Sale
         Salmagundi Club, New York, NY
​         Painting "Ready to sail", oil, 14x18 won second prize
  •  2014  Salmagundi Annual Members Summer Exhibition. 
          Painting "Winter Day", oil, 6x6, won "Philip Isenberg" Award
  •  2012  Plein Air 757, Norfolk.Invitational
         Painting  "Morning Light" was awarded PleinAir Magazine Award 
  •  2011  Juried PAPJC Member Show "A Breath of Plein Air"
         Awarded Honorable Mention
  •  2011  Out & About Norfolk. 5th Annual Plein Air Paint Out. Invitational
         Awarded "In the French Tradition Award 1" 
  •  2011  Bayonet Farm Arts and Music Festival
        Awarded Third Place
  •  2011  Annual Mountain Maryland Plein Air Juried competition. Painting "Old Station"            was selected to be included in 2012 Mountain Maryland Plein Air Calendar
  •  2011  31st Ridgewood Art Institute Regional Open Juried Show 
        Awarded "David Davis" Award. 
  • 2010  Out & About Norfolk. Outdoor 3 Days painting competition . Invitational. 
        Awarded Jerry's Merit Award. 
  • 2009  6th Annual Bayonet Farm and Art Festival, Holmdel, NJ, 2009
        Awarded "Killian & Salisbury Sycamore Award". 

​
Publications: 

 2022 Fine Art Connoisseur 
​
2019  Oil Painters of America 28st National Juried Exhibition of Traditional Oils Magazine.
Painting "Cheese and Wine" was published.

​
​2018 American Art Collector

2014 Book "100 Plein Air Painters of the Mid-Atlantic"  by Gary Pendleton

2012 Oil Painters of America 21st National Juried Exhibition of Traditional Oils Magazine.
Painting " Wine and Cheese"" was published.


2012 PleinAir Magazine September Issue
One image was published in Conjunction with Featured PAPJC Group at the Bayonet Farm  


2012 Mountain Maryland Plein Air Calendar, September 2011
http://www.alleganyartscouncil.org/downloads/2012%20Back%20Cover.pdf

2011 NorthJersey.com Best of the Best are at Regional Jury Art Show February 4
Article

2009 Invitation Cards for Bayonet Farm
Painting "Gray Barn" was selected to be published for cards and flyer

Builder/Architect Magazine So.& Central Jersey Edition June 1993  Illustrations Blackstone Company, Incorporated 

 Agricultural Machinery Catalogues. Perspective Illustrations From Engineering Drawings. Republic of Belarus 1983-1989


Associations and Affiliations:


Oil Painters of America (OPA)

National Oil & Acrylic Painters' Society (NOAPS) 

Salmagundi Club

American Impressionist Society

The Guild of Creative Art (NJ) Exhibiting Member 

Plein Air Painters of the Jersey Coast (PAPJC)
​
​


© 2023, Yelena Snovsky-Fine Art. All Rights Reserved.