A Full Day of Events
See You Saturday, September 6th 2025!
(Rain date: Sept. 7th.)
the main attraction
ogunquit’s 5th annual perkins cove plein air painting event
Ogunquit is hosting its Annual Plein Air Painting Event in beautiful Perkins Cove:
Saturday, September 6th, 2025 (rain date: Sunday, Sept 7, 2025)
Artist Registration opens May 1, 2025
The 2025 Event Schedule is still tentative.
Once finalized, it will be update here, sometime in the summer!

About Our 2025 Judge: Olena Babak
Back for a 2nd year! Our esteemed judge for the Ogunquit, Maine’s 2025 Perkins Cove Plain Air Event is Olena Babek
Olena Babak is an award-winning, classically trained artist, whose landscapes and figurative works can be found in galleries, public and private collections in the U.S. and abroad.
Some of her selected awards: Best of Show in Tilghman and St. Michaels, Easton Plein Air, Best Marine Cape Ann Plein Air, Artists Choice Plein Air Richmond, 1st place Quick Draw & People’s Choice Award Finger Lakes Plein Air, Best Representation of Rockies National Park, 1st place Booth Bay Plein Air and many others.
Her work has been featured in “Plein Air Magazine”, the “Poet’s and Artist’s: 100 Great Drawings,” and the “Classicist” as well as “Strokes of Genius” series.
The 5th Annual Plein Air Event will showcase more than 100 plein air painters
This year artists will compete for a combined $9000 in prizes!
The 2025 PRIZE CATEGORIES:
Professionals: 1st Place, 2nd Place & 3rd Place, and Amateurs: 1st Place, 2nd Place & 3rd Place. And, new this year some special additional prize categories.
Professional Division Awards
- 1st place $2000.
- 2nd place $1500.
- 3rd place $1000.
Amateur Division Awards
- 1st place $750.
- 2nd place $500.
- 3rd place $300.
PLUS a special amateur award will be given: the David Lussier Gallery of Excellence Award for $250.
New Award Categories for 2025:
Best use of Light $1,000. Best Depiction of Marginal Way Celebrating the 100th year of the Marginal Way – $1,000.,Quintessential Perkins Cove – $500., and a Future Generation Prize – which encourages younger artists to participate. $200.
for your listening pleasure
relax to live music in perkins cove
Make a full day of it! See the artists, dine at a local restaurants, drink-in the salty scenery, and relax to our schedule of live music in Perkins Cove!
additional events
painting demonstrations & more
Watch this space for news to come!