Laguna Plein Air Painters Association

Signature Showcase

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lpapa signature artist ray roberts june 2017

LPAPA Signature Artist Member Ray Roberts
of Angels Camp, California
LPAPA’s June 2017 featured Signature Artist Member of the Month.

Ray’s plein air advice, adventures & art:  Plein Talk with Ray Roberts & Artwork Showcase

Like many successful artists before him, Ray first pursued a career as an illustrator, establishing a studio in Los Angeles and then Scottsdale, Arizona. He got up the courage to switch to fine art in 1992 and has never looked back. Ray currently teaches figure and landscape workshops with Plein Air Liaison in Petaluma, California, as well as several other locations across the country and abroad. “I’m on an unfolding path, and I want to let myself evolve into a more honest and intuitive artist. My goal is to reveal more of myself. Hopefully that will be evident in my art” — Ray Roberts

lpapa signature artist ray roberts june 2017

Catalina Twilight

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LPAPA Signature Artist Jeff Sewell’s painting “Catalina Twilight“, 48″ x 72” oil,  is now part of the permanent collection of  The Irvine Museum Collection at the University of California, Irvine. There are only four living artists included in the Museum’s permanent collection — Jesse Powell, John Cosby, Jim McVicker, and now Jeff Sewell — all Signature Artist Members of the Laguna Plein Air Painters Association!

The Museum’s current exhibition “Dusk Till Dawn” includes historical artwork from its permanent collection as well as artwork from contemporary artists.  The works of LPAPA artists included in the exhibition are Zufar Bikbov, Hiu Lai Chong, Rick J. Delanty, Jennifer Diehl, Kim Lordier, Michael Obermeyer, Jesse Powell, Jeff Sewell, and Bryan Mark Taylor.

Dedicated to the preservation and display of California art of the Impressionist Period (1890-1930), The Irvine Museum is embracing a principal role in the education and furtherance of this beautiful and important regional variant of American Impressionism that has come to be associated with California and its remarkable landscape. The Irvine Museum invites you to share this experience and to enjoy the splendor and power of art as it relates directly to our beloved California.

The Irvine Museum Collection was generously donated to the University of California, Irvine in November 2016. The campus’s largest single gift of art to date, it has initiated the process of constructing a museum at UC Irvine. Find out more.

The mission of the Laguna Plein Air Painters Association (LPAPA) is the promote and preserve the artistic legacy of Laguna Beach and the plein air painting tradition.  Laguna was established as an Art Colony more than 100 years ago by Plein Air Artists that included Edgar Payne, William Wendt, Frank Cuprien, Anna Hills, and many other now famous landscape painters.  These early plein air artists opened the first gallery in Laguna Beach in 1918.  To learn more about LPAPA and its mission, click here.

Photo:  Jeff Sewell (center) shown with James Irvine Swinden (left), President of The Irvine Museum, and Jean Stern, Executive Director of The Irvine Museum Collection at the University of California, Irvine.

13th Annual “Best of Plein Air”

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13th Annual “Best of Plein Air”   – an annual Juried Art Show of plein air paintings by LPAPA Signature and Artists Members
Exhibit Dates: June 5 – July 3, 2017
Location: LPAPA in Residence at the Forest & Ocean Gallery, Laguna Beach
View and purchase Gallery Show artwork + bonus Online Show through DailyBrushworks

Award winners:

1st Place: LPAPA Artist Pierre Bouret for "Wailua River"
1st Place: LPAPA Artist Pierre Bouret for “Wailua River”

 

2nd Place: LPAPA Signature Artist Patrick Saunders for "Riverbend Breeze"
2nd Place: LPAPA Signature Artist Patrick Saunders for “Riverbend Breeze”

 

3rd Place: LPAPA Artist Kathie Odom for "Vintage B&B"
3rd Place: LPAPA Artist Kathie Odom for “Vintage B&B”

 

Honorable Mention: LPAPA Signature Artist Jason Sacran for "Laguna Lights"
Honorable Mention: LPAPA Signature Artist Jason Sacran for “Laguna Lights”

 

Honorable Mention: LPAPA Artist Christine Debrosky for "Along Cliff Rose"
Honorable Mention to LPAPA Artist Christine Debrosky for “Along Cliff Rose”

 

List of Participating Artists at the Gallery: 13th-Best of Plein Air-2017

Exhibit Dates:  June 5 – July 3, 2017
Location: LPAPA in Residence at Forest & Ocean Gallery, 480 Ocean Ave, Laguna Beach

In addition to the five cash awards presented, the Best in Show artist will receive an invitation to participate in the 19th Annual Laguna Beach Plein Air Painting Invitational to be presented October 7th – 15th, 2017!

Each month LPAPA presents a new juried art exhibition at its “LPAPA in Residence” gallery located at the Forest & Ocean Gallery in Laguna Beach. The gallery creates opportunities for our artist members from across the country to show their work in our thriving art colony, and it provides LPAPA with the opportunity for our nonprofit art organization to connect with our community, supporters and art lovers. Proceeds from the sale of artwork benefits the artists and nonprofit Laguna Plein Air Painters Association’s mission to promote and preserve Laguna’s art colony legacy established by plein air artists and the tradition of plein air painting.

Celebrate the legacy, be part of the tradition!

Gallery hours: Sunday – Friday: 11am – 5pm | Saturday: 10am – 6pm | Closed Mondays

Island Life

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LPAPA Signature Artist Mark Fehlman will have an opening celebration of his exclusive exhibition “Island Life” at the Debra Huse Gallery on July 8th, 4-7pm. There will be an Mark will also be doing an Artist Demonstration from 1-3pm on July 8th.

“Island Life” will be featured at the Debra Huse Gallery through July 29th.

For more information, please contact the Debra Huse Gallery at 949.723.6171 or mail@debrahuse.com

Painting image: ”Junior Lifeguards“, 12 x 16, original oil by Mark Fehlman