2023 Laguna Beach Plein Air Invitational Artist
Zufar Bikbov
Oakville, Connecticut
“For Zufar art is a continuous experimentation and growth area. More than a decade of traveling and painting in the US has brought his painting palette to a higher key and forged friendships all over the country..”
2023 Laguna Beach Plein Air Invitational Artist
Richard Boyer
Salt Lake City, Utah
“Painting plein air really puts you on the spot to capture the light and composition as quick as possible. In the studio one tends to become lazy and take too many breaks, checking that cell phone becomes a little too often. In the wild, you have just a finite amount of time to get that view down on the canvas before it all changes.”
2023 Laguna Beach Plein Air Invitational Artist
Carl Bretzke
Minneapolis, Minnesota
“It is often said that art is a ‘right brain’ endeavor and yet I’ve always considered myself to be quite grounded in left brain thinking even as I paint. The physics of light and color fascinates me and ‘understanding it’ helps me to ‘see it’ which then allows me to ‘paint it’.  I try to paint scenes that are a bit unexpected and still convey a pleasing sense of familiarity.”
2023 Laguna Beach Plein Air Invitational Artist
Bill Davidson
Monterey, California
“It is my intent to seize the viewer and hold their interest by allowing their own mind to explore the mystery, yet react to a sense of having known a sense of being there.
Artist Bio
2023 Laguna Beach Plein Air Invitational Artist
Aimee Erickson
Portland, Oregon
“Color has emotional weight and is related to the shape of space. Drawing or painting, for me, means to look at the thing and transmit its vitality to the canvas.”
