Featured Member Archives - Laguna Plein Air Painters Association

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

Click these links for: LPAPA Plein Talk with Joe Anna Arnett & Artwork Showcase, plus more at JoeAnnaArnett.com.

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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