Kevin Maddrey has been practicing art for close to three decades. While studying computer animation at U.M.B.C. he took a painting course studying under Symmes Gardner. That one class shifted his focus from animation to painting and changed the direction of his life. After graduating, he moved out to Yosemite, California where he spent the next 10 summers learning how to paint en plein air. With nature as his only teacher, he flourished by painting the grand Sierras with a later focus on the rivers and the waters of the high country.

He has travelled extensively painting all over the United States living in places as diverse as Asheville, NC, Washington DC, and Lee Vining, CA and making sixteen cross country trips in order to experience the beauty of nature in all it’s forms. He’s painted abroad in places like India, Moscow, and Argentina eventually settling down in Garberville, California. There he built a studio cabin in the redwood forests and took a few years away from showing work in order to dive into some personal artistic projects that focused on healing and growth.

Currently he resides in the town of Twentynine Palms in the Mojave Desert where he is painting and working on building a desert garden oasis for himself and for other artists to come and be inspired by the beauty and tranquility of the desert.

Exhibition History

December 2008
Group Christmas Show, Fitzgerald, Georgia

January 2010
Group Show - Graton Gallery, Sebastopol, California

August 2010
Art from the Eastern Sierra - Tioga Pass Resort, Lee Vining, CA

July 2011
In the Flow - Solo Show, Mono Inn Gallery, Mono City, California

August 2013
New Watercolors - Solo Show, Mono Inn Gallery, Mono City, California

August 2014
Artists Favorites - Solo Show, Mono Inn Gallery, Mono City, California

April 2023
Studies from the Mojave - Glass Outhouse Gallery, Wonder Valley, CA

October 2023
Travelling Watercolorist - Glass Outhouse Gallery, Wonder Valley, CA