Although Perry Kapsch's plein air work at juried events such as at Paint Annapolis 2017 tends to be in oil or acrylic, she is a Signature Member of the Baltimore Watercolor Society and was honored to have won MFA's Caruso Prize for watercolor. Kapsch spent more than 30 years in land conservation and historic preservation in Montgomery County Maryland's Agricultural Reserve.

Her fascination with color and changing light have led to a lifetime of painting plein air in the fields and forests of her family's farm near Poolesville, MD where she still lives. Her career as a full-time artist began when her paintings of farm animals and of historic landscapes began to sell at juried shows. A strong influence has been travel first as a child in Japan, and later, sailing - sketching the world from the deck of a boat.