"Drawing has become SO much fun! I can't sit still now. Simple sketches have become full of life!" as one artist discovered after embracing a more expressive approach." *****
Ready to take your art to the next level?
The Plein Air Club is a vibrant, dynamic membership for practicing artists—intermediate, advanced, or professional—who are passionate about abstract, landscape, and plein air painting.
This online membership is for all artists ready to deepen their skills, refine their style, and grow within a creative, supportive community.
This isn’t just another online group. It’s a space for committed artists who want structure, inspiration, group guidance—and connection.
Who is The Plein Air Club for?
✔ You’re an active artist/painter, ready to push your practice further and evolve your visual language.
✔ You enjoy Plein Air painting and want to become more confident and learn to transform quick studies into more powerful, resolved works.
✔ You’re looking for structured, themed projects that challenge and inspire—with feedback, accountability, and purpose.
✔ You want meaningful group critiques and hands-on guidance from a group of professional artists to help develop your practice.
✔ You’re drawn to intuitive mark-making, and want to develop more emotional abstraction, and capturing the essence of landscape, place, and experience.
✔ You believe in the power of community—of sharing your wins, your struggles, and growing alongside others and are looking to communicate with others.
✔ You want real-world opportunities: monthly critiques, plein air meet-ups, group shows, and inspiring social events that support your journey.
A New Path for Your Landscape Art
Believe me when I say you’re not too late to become the artist you dream of being. I teach 100’s of artists every year and I see REAL transformations.
You don’t need more art materials and you don’t need to be more talented - you just need the right guidance to unlock the bold artist within you.
Being an artist doesn’t have to be a solo journey.
The Plein Air Club connects you with a tribe of dedicated creatives who get it—who are as passionate and committed as you are.
Together, we stretch, experiment, and celebrate the process.
Quarterly Artistic Challenges
Every season, you’ll dive into a 3-month guided project exploring a fresh abstract landscape theme. Take your plein air sketches into the studio and turn them into powerful, finished artworks—with direction, purpose, and support.
Live Community Calls
Connect with fellow artists in real time. Share your wins, talk through challenges, and get support in a warm, no-pressure space that celebrates honest creativity.
Exclusive Monthly Video Guidance from Sam
Creative prompts and demos
Techniques in colour, composition, mark-making & more
Insights on developing your unique abstract voice
Tools to push your work further—with confidence
In-Person Events & Opportunities
Join group plein air painting days, exhibitions, and creative meetups. Build real-life connections, show your work, and fuel your journey offline too.
Monthly Art Challenge & Q&A LIVE Review
Join our Monthly Art Challenge, where all members follow the same theme and submit work for a final group review recording and LIVE Q&A Session.
All in One Easy Platform
Everything—videos, critiques, events, community—is all in one simple, beautifully organized platform. No tech headaches, just art.
Join Our Community
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Artists Online Membership
Learn to paint wild, expressive landscapes that look how you feel inside - without getting stuck in the rules - Experience real transformations. Your time is now.
Step into a vibrant, supportive artist community and take your landscape painting to the next level—with expert guidance, creative challenges, and real connection.
What’s included:
Quarterly Themed Painting Challenges
Monthly Inspirational Videos & creative prompts
Monthly group Q&A Sessions
Live Community Calls
Private Artist Forum
In-person events & group exhibitions
All in one easy-to-use platform
Serious about your art? Ready to grow? This is your place.
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Your Community
With Plein Air Abstracts you also have a private community to share your work and ask for feedback from other artists on a similar journey!
Being an artists doesn't have to be a solo journey. It can be a journey of friendship and connection. Be part of this thriving network of landscape painters and learn through engaging with others!
"YOU'RE NEVER TOO LATER TO CREATE THE ART YOU DESIRE!"
Meet Your Award-Winning Tutor
Hi, I’m Sam — a landscape artist lucky enough to call the rolling hills of South West England my home.
Like so many artists, I struggled with perfectionism. I thought I had to get it “right” — until I learned that the real magic happens when you let go. When you make space for mistakes, loosen your grip, and trust your instincts. That’s when my work began to change… and so did I.
- Winner of the Ronald Searle Award for Creativity
- Long-listed for the Kate Greenaway Award
- Winner of the 2020 Brownston Gallery Award
What matters most to me is this: helping you experience the same creative freedom I fought so hard to find. I made this course to share everything that transformed my art — from the techniques to the mindset shifts — so you can stop holding back and start creating with joy, energy, and confidence.
Can’t wait to see what you create!
Love Sam x
