2024 Laguna Beach Plein Air Invitational Artist
Aaron Schuerr
Livingston, Montana
” A hiker moves through the landscape. An artist allows the landscape to move through them. From the fixed point of an easel, I become a crude conduit, through which the story of a moment is told. Sometimes I don’t listen very well, or I just don’t get it. Occasionally, I’m able to use pastels or paint to translate that feeling of deep longing into something worth sharing.”
Artist Bio
2024 Laguna Beach Plein Air Invitational Artist
Mark Shasha
Swampscott, Massachusetts
“Painting is a calling for me. It is a longing for those moments when the poetry happens when a sun beam caresses a snowbank, peeks into a glade or spills diamonds across the sea. I’m compelled by something deep in me to seize that energy and to express it as paint on canvas using my own calligraphy and the brevity of a few accurate brushstrokes. My reward is to have the viewer linger, to understand, to share as the canvas evokes and conveys a glimmer of that sublime natural beauty all around.”
2024 Laguna Plein Air Invitational Artist
Calvin Liang
Corona, California
“I aim to create paintings that communicate truth without telling the whole story, and it’s so satisfying when a viewer tells me that one of my paintings conveys the spirit of the subject in a truthful way.”
2024 Laguna Plein Air Invitational Artist
Philippe Gandiol
Davis, California
“CITYSCAPES, LANDSCAPES, STILL LIFE OR THE FIGURE, THE PROCESS IS MY PASSION……”
2024 Laguna Plein Air Invitational Artist
Scott Hamill
Scotts Valley, California
“I have developed a strong connection to the water and land while surfing along the Pacific coast and fishing, backpacking and canoeing in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.. My goal is to share this connection with those who view my art.”
