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July 2025 Featured Artist Member: Meisha Grichuhin

July 3, 2025 by Bonnie Langner

July 2025 Featured Artist : Meisha Grichuhin of Oceanside, California

Meisha Grichuhin was born in San Jose, California in 1987, studying painting at the Academy of Art University and graduating with the honor of Valedictorian. Meisha describes her style as “impressionistic realism,” and strives to capture the light and essence of a subject while retaining the artist’s viewpoint and evidence of the artist’s hand. She loves painting “en plein air” especially, using all five senses to absorb the landscape. This immersion allows her to truly study her subject and bask in the radiance of nature. Meisha lives with her husband and their four cats in Southern California where the temperate climate allows for year round outdoor painting.

Click here to visit Meisha’s website to learn more about the artist.

Artwork by Meisha Grichuhin currently on exhibit and available through the LPAPA Gallery…

Click to view more of Meisha’s artwork at MeishaGrichuhin.com

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Laguna Plein Air Painters Association (LPAPA)
Gallery: 414 N. Coast Highway, Laguna Beach, CA 92651
Phone (949) 376-3635, Email info@lpapa.org

February 2025 Featured Artist: Amanda Fish

February 6, 2025 by Bonnie Langner

February 2025 Artist Member of the Month: Amanda Fish of Costa Mesa, California

Amanda enjoys creating still life paintings that have traditional look, but with a fresh painterly feel and delicate application. She retains a realistic yet lyrical quality by painting thin layers of transparent color. She follows the light with graceful movements allowing the viewer to wander and notice the nuances. She composes all of her still lifes, adding personal objects collected over many years with fruits and flowers. She likens her compositions as visual vignettes. luminescence.

“I am constantly inspired by the visual richness of objects. It’s about movement, elegance andI want to interpret the grace and beauty I see when bringing a variety of items together.”

-Amanda Fish

— Click here to visit Amanda’s website to learn more about the artist.

Artwork by Amanda Fish available for a limited time through the LPAPA Gallery…

Click to view more of Amanda’s artwork at AmandaFishFine Art.com

Plein Talk Archives

Laguna Plein Air Painters Association (LPAPA)
Gallery: 414 N. Coast Highway, Laguna Beach, CA 92651
Phone (949) 376-3635, Email info@lpapa.org or gallery@lpapa.org

August 2024 Featured Artist Member: Kirsten Anderson

August 1, 2024 by Bonnie Langner

August 2024 Artist Member of the Month: Kirsten Anderson of Long Beach, California

“Raised in California, she has traveled with her palette and sketchbook on 6 continents and her paintings are a personal diary of her travels. “I have a wanderlust spirit that fits perfectly with an outdoor painter.” Kirsten ‘s favorite subjects are found along the coast, on the water, or in the water. “Sunlit figures, the ocean, the beach are especially inspiring. I love the sun hitting bodies—it’s like painting nudes, but with bikinis. And I like to paint boats.” Painting is an endless pursuit that touches my soul. My painting process always involves observing nature, providing me a stepping off point between realism, naturalism and abstraction. I prefer abstract areas and painterly textures and surprises in color palette and value. I want my painting to be better than the photograph or scene I am attempting to portray.”

— Click here to visit Kirsten’s website to learn more about the artist.

Artwork by Kirsten Anderson available for a limited time through the LPAPA Gallery…

Click to view more of Kirsten’s artwork at KirstenAnderson.com

Plein Talk Archives

Laguna Plein Air Painters Association (LPAPA)
Gallery: 414 N. Coast Highway, Laguna Beach, CA 92651
Phone (949) 376-3635, Email info@lpapa.org

August 2024 Featured Signature Artist: Lisa Skelly

August 1, 2024 by Bonnie Langner

August 2024 Signature Artist of the Month: Lisa Skelly of Balboa Island, California

“Lisa Skelly is an award-winning soft pastel artist who is deeply inspired by the beauty of nature. Through her paintings, she captures the essence of the natural world, with a particular focus on seascapes, landscapes, waves, skies, and clouds. Lisa’s medium of choice is pure pigment, which she expertly manipulates to create vibrant, lifelike images that transport viewers to the heart of her scenes.”

Click here to visit Lisa’s website to learn more about the artist.

Artwork by Lisa Skelly available for a limited time through the LPAPA Gallery…

"Shining Seas" by Lisa Skelly for sale at LPAPA Gallery August 2024

"J'adore La Mer" by Lisa Skelly for sale at LPAPA Gallery August 2024

"Morning Reflection" by Lisa Skelly for sale at LPAPA Gallery August 2024

Click to view more of Lisa’s artwork at LisaSkellyFineArt.com

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Laguna Plein Air Painters Association (LPAPA)
Gallery: 414 N. Coast Highway, Laguna Beach, CA 92651
Phone (949) 376-3635, Email info@lpapa.org

John Cosby: A Journey in Art at the Rivian South Coast Theater

July 4, 2024 by Toni Kellenberg

John Cosby: A Journey in Art
Short Documentary Film

Wednesday July 17th, 6:30-8:30pm
Special Screening and Q&As with John Cosby
at the Rivian South Coast Theater!

Purchase Tickets

LPAPA is proud to present “John Cosby: A Journey in Art” at the Rivian South Coast Theater on Wednesday July 17th, 6:30-8:30pm. This will be the first public screening of an extended version of the short documentary film that John has been working on. Q&As with John will follow the screening.

Please plan to join us for the fun, food and drinks, and lively conversation in support of LPAPA!

John Cosby is one of the original Founding Members of the Laguna Plein Air Painters Association (LPAPA), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit art organization originally founded in Laguna Beach in 1996. Your support is greatly appreciated! Proceeds generated through ticket sales supports the program and helps sustain nonprofit LPAPA’s Mission and year-round art and education programs. To view the artwork in John’s recent LPAPA Gallery Show “Looking West, a Portrait of the Places I Love”, click here.

Thank you for your support! Thank you for being part of the Laguna Plein Air Painting tradition and legacy!

$45 Registration fee; $35 for LPAPA Member

Purchase Tickets