Press
Interview with Voyage Dallas
August 20, 2026
“Being an artist was really just a dream, until it came true, one day at a time, taking a deep breath and practicing. Could you imagine a concert pianist performing at Carnegie Hall without practicing every day? I received my B.F.A. and began grad school, while working as a TA. During this time I applied and was accepted to be an artist in residence with the U.S. National Park Service on the Outer Banks of N.C. The first of several residencies, they have taken me from Acadia, Maine, Cape Cod, MA, and Virginia to France. My most recent residency was as a printmaker in Venice, Italy and one of my first international collections was in a museum in France. Striving to be more accomplished as a painter, I searched out teachers and have always studied…”
Following in the Footsteps of French Impressionists
Fall 2023
By Mandy Reynolds
As the emerald shades of summer trees turn become tinged with red, Priscilla Whitlock captures the transitory moments of nature on her canvas en plein air. “I draw my inspiration from the landscape itself in the moment. It’s what inspires me,” Whitlock says. …
Priscilla’s painting adjacent to Joan Mitchell’s at “Lady Painters” Second Street Gallery
Lady Painters: Inspired by Joan Mitchell
June 7 – July 19, 2019
Isabelle Abbot, Karen Blair, Janet Bruce, Molly Herman, and Priscilla Long Whitlock, featuring two rarely seen original works of art by Joan Mitchell, on loan from The Fralin Museum at the University of Virginia
Second Street Gallery presents its first exhibition honoring one of the principal figures of the second generation of Abstract Expressionism. This show, Lady Painters: Inspired by Joan Mitchell, on view from June 7 to July 19 in the Main Gallery.
…Artists participating in the exhibition included: Isabelle Abbot, Karen Blair, Janet Bruce, and Priscilla Long Whitlock of Virginia, as well as Molly Herman, a native of Alexandria, Virginia who now lives and works in New York City.
The highlight of the exhibition was the inclusion of two rarely seen original works of art by Joan Mitchell, on loan to Second Street Gallery from The Fralin Museum at the University of Virginia. The Untitled works, a painting and a work on paper both dated 1957, are important compositions from a significant year in Joan Mitchell’s oeuvre…
The Landscape of Emotion
June 2019
By Sarah Sargent
…Landscape Re-Imagined at Les Yeux du Monde—feature artists whose work draws inspiration from Mitchell: Isabelle Abbot (Greenwood), Karen Blair (Crozet), Janet Bruce (Brookneal), Mary Page Evans (Wilmington, Delaware), Molly Herman (Brooklyn, New York), and Priscilla Whitlock (Charlottesville). Despite living out of state, Evans and Herman are both native Virginians who return frequently to paint the landscape of their birth….
Women’s works
June 12, 2019
By Mary Shea Watson
…On the gallery’s back wall is Whitlock’s “High Water, Marks.” It’s an abstracted landscape that portrays a gestural, expansive scene that is a symphony of exacted mark- making.
Upon encountering her first Mitchell in Norfolk’s Chrysler Museum of Art, Whitlock says “it was love at first sight—the big slashes of paint, the energy behind her marks.” In preparation for the exhibition, Whitlock incorporated more mixed-media and looser mark-making in her work. “I love the expressive marks and energy that can be distilled into line; it’s jazzy, hopping, it’s music,” she says…
Whitlock Gives Painting to Zimmer Center
Wilmington Star News
August 20, 2018
By Lynda Van Kuren
Priscilla Long Whitlock’s art has been commissioned by major organizations such as the National Institutes of Health, the University of Virginia’s Emily Couric Clinical Cancer Center, and Augusta Medical Center. Now one of her paintings graces the lobby of the Zimmer Cancer Center at New Hanover Regional Medical Center.
The acclaimed artist says the painting is her way of giving back to Wilmington, a location and community she treasures. Between vacationing at her Wrightsville Beach house and spending time with family and friends in the area, she has enjoyed thousands of hours in and around the city. Plus, Whitlock loves working on the area’s islands, painting the ever-changing landscape as the tides ebb and flow….
The Healing Arts
Wrightsville Beach Magazine
December 21, 2015
By designloud
Painting can be therapeutic both for the artist and the viewer. Priscilla Long Whitlock understands that very well. Her work has been curated commissioned and featured in hospital campuses across the country including those attached to the New Hanover County Medical Center injecting a layer of joy peace and well-being into places of healing…
Some Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Painting OWU
August 30, 2011
By Frank Hobbs
In memory of the summer just past, a selection of some of the great landscape painting being done today…
Mexico's True Colors
Eight Artists From Virginia Capture San Miguel on Canvas
January 21, 2006
By Susan Harb
…Our painting options were also plentiful.
We went twice to the Charco del Ingenio Botanical Garden on the outskirts of town, which includes a canyon, small lake, ancient dam and miles of hiking trails. "It was a religious experience," said Priscilla Whitlock, 56, of Charlottesville. "That's the only way I can describe it."
"It was so gentle and quiet, wonderful birds . . . and after the rains, the cacti burst into bloom. It was my favorite place," said Dalgliesh.
We worked alongside students in the spacious Belles Artes courtyard near the Jardin, enclosed by a two-story stone-and-stucco arcade with tropical vines reaching all the way to the roof. The central fountain was festooned with flowers in an arrangement so fastidious it could have been a cover shot for Architectural Digest. A piano sonata drifted down from a second-floor studio where a music student was practicing, providing a romantic score to silent brush strokes.
Another day, we were mere specks on the vast desolate landscape surrounding an abandoned silver mining company outside of Pozos, a ghost town 45 minutes from San Miguel, where we spent a morning rendering endless shades of white. It was another one of those "pinch me" moments, so spectacular were the ruined building and abandoned mine shafts and barren rocky hills in the background.
Whitlock made a painting, rubbed it out and then began collecting stones to take home. "For the color," she said. "I want to get the color right."…
National Parks Service
Acadia National Park
“My focus as an artist in residence at Acadia National Park was to explain to students how all of us create a visual language. Using a slide show with photo images from the park I explained how we look at texture, pattern, repetition, color, etc. to inform our artwork. I had students create an image in the classroom that communicated what they were looking at or thinking about and then we all guessed at what each student was communicating. We had lots of fun!”…