LPAPA Signature Artist Lyudmila Tomova Clark
Cary, North Carolina
Lyudmila Tomova Clark is an internationally acclaimed, award-winning artist known for her luminous impressionist style. Working primarily in oil and watercolor, she specializes in figurative, portrait, and plein-air painting. Her work merges abstraction with realism, capturing atmosphere, emotion, and movement through bold color, expressive mark-making, and a deeply observed sense of light.
Over the past two years alone, her paintings have earned more than 50 awards in national and international exhibitions, including 21 First-Place honors, along with major distinctions such as Grand Prize, Best in Show, and international competition awards. Notable recent achievements include 2nd Place in the Plein Air category at the International ARC Salon, accompanied by the Plein Air Magazine Award, the President’s Award from Oil Painters of America, and top honors at major events including Plein Air Easton, Bluff Strokes, Suffolk Plein Air Festival, Cape Ann Plein Air, Gloucester Plein Air, and Degallery Invitational. She was also a Top 40 Finalist in the PleinAir Salon Competition, one of the most competitive plein-air competitions worldwide.
Tomova Clark’s paintings balance structure and spontaneity, often painted directly from life in the tradition of classical plein-air practice. Whether depicting figures, urban scenes, or natural landscapes, her work emphasizes mood, gesture, and the human experience of place rather than literal description.
Learn more at TomovaFineArt.com.
