Few places offer such varieties of landscape as the American West and few capture its rare beauty as does Andy Skaff in his vibrant, light-filled paintings. Today, Andy most often sets up his easel in the Lake Tahoe region, but in the early days of his career studied with celebrated plein air painter Kevin McPherson in the French countryside where the practice of painting in the "open air" became popular with the Impressionists in the 19th century. Andy has been honored with solo shows in San Francisco and Lake Tahoe galleries and invited to exhibit at the Napa Valley Museum and the Oil Painters of America Western Regional Exhibit in Santa Barbara. Most recently, his paintings were the featured work at Gump's San Francisco's "Ancient Moderns" and "La Mer" exhibits. The Ritz Carlton Highlands, Larkspur Hotel Group and Martis Camp have purchased his work for their permanent collections. With a clear eye and bold strokes of the brush, Andy endows his remarkable paintings with all the vivid color, contrast and splendor of the Western landscape.