Kathleen B. Hudson of Lexington, Kentucky
LPAPA’s November 2019 featured Signature Artist Member of the Month.

Click these links for: LPAPA Plein Talk Q&As with Kathleen Hudson & Artwork Showcase, plus see more of Kathleen’s artwork at KathleenBHudson.com.

Kathleen B. Hudson lives and paints in Lexington, KY, where she has a studio at Artists’ Attic. Hudson is a Signature Member of the American Society of Marine Artists and the Laguna Plein Air Painters Association, and she is an Artist Member of the Copley Society of Art in Boston, MA. In 2017, Hudson received the Grand Prize in the 6th Annual PleinAir Salon for her painting Bright Morning, Timberline Falls, which was featured on the July 2017 cover of PleinAir Magazine. The same month Southwest Art named her an “Artist to Watch.”

Hudson moved from her native Kentucky to Boston in the fall of 2005 to begin an undergraduate degree at Harvard University. During her years in Boston, Hudson came to love the beautiful New England landscape as she painted, studied mountain travel narratives, and led backpacking trips for fellow students. After graduating, she was selected to join Boston’s Copley Society of Art, the oldest non-profit art association in America.

In 2013, Hudson returned to her hometown of Lexington and began to take part in regional plein air painting festivals. She now undertakes several national juried competitions each year, and when she’s not outside painting from life, you can find her in the studio creating larger scale landscapes that emphasize the dynamic interplay of light, shadow, and atmospherics.

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Pierre Bouret of Princeville, Hawaii
LPAPA’s November 2019 Artist Member of the Month

Click the links for: LPAPA Plein Talk Q&As with Pierre Bouret  & Artwork Showcase, plus see more of Pierre’s artwork at ArtKauai.com.

Pierre Bouret moved to Kauai in 1970 to pursue his passion for surfing.   Once on island, he was captivated by the beauty and magnificence of the surrounding landscape.  These images inspired him to paint Kauai in plein air in all her natural splendor.   Hawaii’s mountains, waterfalls cascading into the ever changing sea and moments of  magical light and shadow have provided an endless source of material for his Hawaii paintings.

Bouret’s plein air paintings are characterized by colorful, light filled canvases, which capture fleeting moments in ordinary life and memorialize the beauty of Hawaii’s landscapes and coastline.

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Hiu Lai Chong of Rockville, Maryland
LPAPA’s October 2019 featured Signature Artist Member of the Month.

Click these links for: LPAPA Plein Talk Q&As with Hiu Lai Chong & Artwork Showcase, plus more at HiuLaiChong.com.

Hiu Lai Chong is an oil painter who uses vivid colors and sensitive brushstrokes to express mood and feeling in her subjects. She received her early art training in Hong Kong and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her paintings have won numerous awards. In 2012, Hiu Lai received the Grand Prize and Artist’s Choice Award at Plein Air Easton, Maryland. She was featured in the November issue of Plein Air Magazine by Editor-in-Chief Steve Doherty. In 2016, She received Certificate of Excellence award from International Portrait Competition by Portrait Society of America. Hiu Lai is an artist member of the California Arts Club, Portrait Society of America, Signature Member of the Laguna Plein Air Painters Association, the Oil Painters of America, the American Society of Marine Artists and Mid-Atlantic Plein Air Painter Association, and member of the Washington Society of Landscape Painters.

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

Click the links for: Plein Talk Q&As with Richard Boyer  & Artwork Showcase, plus learn more at RichardBoyerArt.net.

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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