This beautiful piece of art is "Oriental Lights"

It is 12x9 plein air oil on linen and painted on sight .

Fen Rascoe is an award-winning American Impressionist from the small town of Windsor, NC. He paints Alla Prima in oil whether in Plein Air or in the Studio and is represented by ArtSource Fine Art in Raleigh, NC and City Art Gallery in Greenville, NC. His work can also be found in Chowan Arts Council in Edenton, NC.

So far in 2024, he has been invited to be on the faculty of the 11th and 12th Annual Plein Air Convention and Expo (PACE), juried into North Carolina Plein Air Festival by selection juror Shanna Kunz, and he is featured in the Spring 2024 Virginia Sportsman Magazine. Also, his work was published in May and Oct/Nov issues of Plein Air Magazine and awarded the Judges Choice Award in Suffolk Plein Air by Awards Judge Gavin Gkakas. He won 3rd place in Plein Air Abingdon this October by Awards Judge Jeremy Sams and painting titled "Buckhorn Bales" was juried into the 5th Annual American Impressionist Society Online Exhibition.

In 2023, he won Honorable Mention in Va Highlands Plein Air Festival, and 3rd Place in Suffolk Plein Air Festival. His work has been featured in the 2022 North Carolina Literary Review and in 2021, Rascoe received the Honorable Mention Ribbon from AIS Signature Member Dee Beard Dean in the 2021 Edisto Plein Air Paint Out. That same year his work was featured on the Outdoor Channel's The Obsession of Carter Andrews Episode 2 "The Impressionist". Rascoe's Plein Air paintings have been featured twice in Plein Air Magazine's daily online newsletter Plein Air Today by article authors Bob Bahr and Jeanne Mackenzie. In 2015, Rascoe was selected by Selection Juror Russell Jewel to participate in 2nd Annual Piedmont Plein Air Paint Out in Highpoint, NC. That same year he was awarded 1st Place in 2015 29th Annual Landmark Show and Competition- juried by Chad Hughes, adjunct Professor of Art NC Central University. He also was awarded Best Figure / People Award - 8th Annual Kinston Plein Air Paint Out Juried Contest by Prior Year 1st Place Winner Jeremy Sams.