Richard Boyer of Salt Lake City, Utah
LPAPA’s October 2019 Artist Member of the Month

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Boyer began painting at an early age, first showing his work while still attending high school in Williamsville, New York.  He graduated from the University of Utah in 1981 after five years of study under the portrait and figurative painter “Alvin Gittins”. Gittins’ ability to render the figure so expertly intrigues and influences him to this day.

In 1981, Boyer moved to Germany to study languages at the Universität Kiel. With Kiel as a home base, he utilized the opportunity to travel and paint throughout Europe, Africa and the Middle East.  Richard met his Swedish wife, Karin, while studying at the University of Berlin.  Since 1988, they have resided in Salt Lake City, Utah, where their three children were born.  However, they continue to spend their summers with their extended family in Sweden.

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Joe Anna Arnett of Santa Fe, New Mexico
LPAPA’s September 2019 featured Signature Artist Member of the Month.

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Joe Anna Arnett is a master artist on “Passport & Palette” the art instruction and travel series airing on PBS stations across the country. She not only appears on the show, but also produces and writes for the program.

In 1997, she became a Master Artist of the Artists in America Show at the Denver Historical Society Museum. She has also exhibited at museums around the country and in 2006 she was honored by the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, OK as one of their featured artists in the Rendezvous exhibition. Arnett exhibited in the Prix de West show at the national Cowboy Hall of Fame for 14 years. Arnett is a Signature Member of Oil Painters of America , Signature member of Laguna Plein Air Painters and Master Signature member of Plein Air Artists Colorado and an elected member of The Salmagundi Club.  Arnett has participated in Plein Air Maui, Plein Air Southwest, and Paint Grand Traverse. .

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Nanette Biers of Corte Madera, California
LPAPA’s September 2019 Artist Member of the Month

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“Looking at her oil paintings–the landscapes, seascapes, garden scenes, architecture, period pieces–the Impressionists, Monet, Degas, Cassatt come to mind, not only due to Nanette’s painterly style, but her use of light.”
— Rebecca Bedrossian, Communication Arts, January/February 2001

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Carl Bretzke of Minneapolis, Minnesota
LPAPA’s August 2019 featured Signature Artist Member of the Month.

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Carl Bretzke is a representational oil painter who specializes in urban scenes and plein air landscapes.

Carl’s work has been described in the Washington Post as “simultaneously intimate and detached… The artist’s unadorned style recalls Edward Hopper and The Ashcan school.”

Carl holds an MD degree from the University of Minnesota Medical School. His undergraduate degree is from the University of Colorado, where he also received a minor in Fine Art. 

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