LPAPA Artist Member Mary Garrish of Merritt Island, Florida
LPAPA’s September 2018 Artist Member of the Month
Click on the following links for: LPAPA Plein Talk with Mary Garrish & Artwork Showcase
Mary’s major interest is Plein Air landscapes and other Representational Art. She paints annually around the world. Click here to learn more about Mary.
LPAPA Signature Artist Member Thomas Jefferson Kitts of Portland, Oregon
LPAPA’s August 2018 featured Signature Artist Member of the Month.
Click for Thomas’ plein air tips, advice, adventures & artwork: LPAPA Plein Talk with Thomas Jefferson Kitts & Artwork Showcase.
Thomas is both inspired and exhilarated by the way light plays across the landscape and he has devoted most of his life to capturing it in oil. He prefers to work directly from life for its honesty and immediacy, incorporating many alla prima techniques developed by 19th century master painters such as Sargent, Sorolla, and Zorn.
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“When people view my efforts I want them to see a painting, not a photograph. I want them to experience a surface made alive with color, texture, and the movement of my hand, yet also feel tethered to the reality that gave birth to the work. Up close, I want my surfaces to explode. From a distance, I want them to optically reassemble into a whole. But most of all, I want my audience to appreciate why I prefer to paint from life – and thus discover our common sense of wonder.” — Thomas Jefferson Kitts
LPAPA Artist Member Hai-Ou Hou of Stevensville, Maryland
LPAPA’s August 2018 Artist Member of the Month
Click on the following links for: LPAPA Plein Talk with Hai-Ou Hou & Artwork Showcase
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LPAPA Artist Member Tatyana Fogarty is featured in the November 2018 Southwest Art Magazine “Artists to Watch” section, the editors’ choice for up-and-coming talent.
It was when Tatyana was just a young girl when the luminous white horse in Joaquín Sorolla’s painting THE HORSE’S BATH first caught her eye. Throughout her childhood in Russia and Ukraine, Fogarty periodically encountered the impressionistic painting in the pages of her schoolbooks, and each time, she found herself dazzled by the Spanish painter’s masterpiece. It wasn’t until decades later that Fogarty stood before the painting in person, at the Sorolla Museum in Madrid, and understood its underlying brilliance. “I grew up knowing it as a white horse, but you look at the colors, and there is no real white there,” she marvels. “Now that I have studied Sorolla’s work and have seen his work in shows, I understand how he does his whites, and it’s amazing how many colors they have.”
Since she began painting in 2008, Fogarty has also become increasingly attuned to the nuanced palette of nature itself. Though she has studied with acclaimed artists like Kathleen Dunphy and Scott Christensen, some of her greatest lessons in color have occurred while painting en plein air around her home in Sacramento, CA, and particularly along the Pacific Coast. Boats, piers, beaches, and coves are just a few subjects in Fogarty’s oeuvre that have allowed her to plunge, metaphorically speaking, into chromatic studies of water and its rippling, reflective surfaces. The artist’s aquatic scenes come in many shades of blue and beyond; in REFLECTIONS INTRICACY—which won an award in a recent PleinAir Salon competition—water seems to eddy, shimmy, and shimmer with life in loose, expressive brush strokes ranging in hue from teal to purple.
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LPAPA Signature Artist Patrick Saunders‘ painting “A Window Onto Bentley’s Backyard” graces the cover of Southwest Art Magazine’s September 2018 issue. Click here to read Patrick’s featured article: “Patrick Saunders Slows Down to Really See — One Place and Painting at a Time“.
