Penny Billings

Penny Billings is an internationally collected, award-winning contemporary landscape painter whose work is heavily influenced by the European Barbizon school and the 19th-century American Tonalist movement. Specializing in oil landscapes created from imagination, memory, and plein air sketches, she has established a distinguished career celebrated for its mastery of light, shadow, and atmospheric countryside moods.

Billings holds top-tier credentials with some of the United States’ most prestigious art institutions. At the historic Copley Society of Art in Boston, she achieved the highest possible rank of Copley Master. She deepens her leadership within the organization by serving on its Board of Governors and previously chairing both its Art and Membership Committees. Additionally, she is an Artist Fellow at the historic St. Botolph Club in Boston, a Signature Member of the American Artists Professional League (AAPL) in New York, a Signature Member of American Women Artists (AWA), a juried member of the historic Salmagundi Club, and an artist member of the National Oil & Acrylic Painters’ Society (NOAPS).

Throughout her career, Billings’ work has been featured in numerous competitive solo and group exhibitions. Her oils have been displayed at premier venues nationwide, including the National Arts Club and Salmagundi Club in New York, the Boston International Fine Art Show, the Guild of Boston Artists, the St. Botolph Club, the Massachusetts State House, and various American museums and commercial galleries.

A frequent finalist in elite international competitions, her paintings have repeatedly placed in the Art Renewal Center’s International ARC Salon and The Artist’s Magazine’s Annual Art Competition. Notably, Billings was awarded the top prize for landscape oil painting at the American Artists Professional League’s 85th Grand National Exhibition in New York (2013).