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April 2025 Featured Signature Artist: Fernando Micheli

March 31, 2025 by Bonnie Langner

April 2025 Featured Signature Artist : Fernando Micheli of Laguna Beach, California

Born in the rural town of Fiano, near Lucca, Italy. Fernando immigrated and was raised in San Francisco, CA. With a short hiatus studying and traveling in Northern Italy in his late teens, Fernando returned home to the Bay Area to obtain his B.A. at U.C. Berkeley, College of Environmental Design and practiced Landscape Architecture and Urban Design for 37 years,
working on many prominent projects such as the Getty Museum, USC campus and Playa Vista.
After retirement in 2014, wanting to selfishly pursue the notion of creating for his own fulfillment and joy, he pursued his desire to become a painter and artist. He focuses on the immediacy of Plein Air painting and Representational art, capturing the beauty around him, but endlessly curious of the next challenge that will propel his desire to see and understand the world in a more intense way.

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

Artwork by Fernando Micheli currently on exhibit and available through the LPAPA Gallery…

Click to view more of Fernando’s artwork at FernandoMicheli.com

Click here for LPAPA’s Library of Archived Plein Talks

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

April 2025 Featured Artist: Fay Wyles

March 31, 2025 by Bonnie Langner

April 2025 Featured Artist : Fay Wyles of San Clemente, California

Fay’s creative process is rooted in plein air painting, where she captures field studies and color notes from the seascapes and landscapes that inspire her. Working outdoors allows her to immerse herself fully in the scene, translating the natural light, atmosphere, and mood directly onto canvas. These smaller, spontaneous studies provide the foundation for her larger studio works, where she refines and amplifies the initial inspiration into powerful compositions. This balance between plein air exploration and studio refinement gives her art a dynamic energy, capturing both the raw beauty of the moment and a deeper, more considered interpretation.

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

Artwork by Fay Wyles currently on exhibit and available through the LPAPA Gallery…

Click to view more of Fay’s artwork at FayWylesFineArt.com

Click here for LPAPA’s Library of Archived Plein Talks

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

Geoff Allen at the Disney Grand Californian

March 14, 2025 by Toni Kellenberg

March 13, 2025: LPAPA had the privilege to host Signature Artist Geoff Allen at Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel & Spa to add a special art experience to a special event that included rare scotch and a bagpiper!

2025Annual Best of Plein Air Award Winners

March 6, 2025 by Toni Kellenberg

LPAPA's 21st Annual Best of Plein Air
LPAPA’s 21st Annual “Best of Plein Air” Juried Art Show
A celebration of paintings by LPAPA Members created outdoors “en plein aire”!

Show Overview & Timeline: (All times shown are Pacific Time)
Online Art Catalog Exhibition (Finalists & Top Semi-Finalists): March 3rd thru April 28th
Online Preview Auction: Opens 10AM Monday, March 3rd, ends 8PM Thursday, March 6th
LPAPA Gallery Show (Finalists): Opens 11AM Thursday, March 6th thru Monday, April 28th
Art Walk Gallery Reception & Awards: Thursday, March 6, 2025, 6-9PM (awards 7PM)*

*Gallery awards presentation live-streamed on Facebook.

Award Winners: (Click to read write up in OutdoorPainter.com, StuNews Laguna, and PleinAir Today).

Award winners were announced during the March 6, 2025 Art Walk Gallery Reception. The 1st Place award-winning artist also receives a coveted “golden ticket” invitation to participate in LPAPA’s 27th Annual Laguna Beach Plein Air Painting Invitational, October 4 – 12, 2025.

LPAPA is proud to present its Juried Art Shows, Signature Showcase Exhibitions, Signature Artist in Residence Exhibitions, and Featured Members at our beautiful gallery located on Gallery Row in Laguna Beach, California. Plan to visit us!

Laguna Plein Air Painters Association | LPAPA Gallery
414 N. Coast Highway, Laguna Beach, CA 92651
Hours are 11AM to 5PM, Thursday thru Monday, and by appointment
Hours extended to 9PM for First Thursdays Art Walk
Phone (949) 376-3635 or Email Gallery@LPAPA.org

For information about becoming a LPAPA Member, click here: Join LPAPA

To view past show winners visit LPAPA’s Award Winners Archive Gallery
For inquiries, please contact LPAPA at 949-376-3635 or info@lpapa.org

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Rick Delanty at Casa Romantica

February 27, 2025 by Toni Kellenberg

LPAPA Signature Member Rick J. Delanty recently was honored by the Casa Romantica Cultural Center in San Clemente as the inaugural artist to open in the new gallery space called “The Studio,” adjacent to the room in which the city’s founder laid plans to build “The Spanish Village by the Sea.” Besides being an award-winning LPAPA Signature Artist, Rick has recently participated as artist and lecturer at the “Paint Maui” plein air invitational, and is also represented by four galleries in the western United States. The new space is intended to house the current artist-in-resident’s work as he/she paints on the grounds, and represents artworks available for purchase in the gallery. The artist’s reception was celebrated February 27, with Delanty’s work being on view through the summer of 2025, when a second artist’s work will be featured. Delanty’s paintings of the local area will be represented primarily, and may be acquired from the Casa’s gift store.

Rick will be on hand some Thursdays and Fridays to paint on the grounds, and will be available to meet guests simultaneously with the opening of the “Gems of California Impressionism” on March 21st, a showing of a part of James Swinden’s private collection. To view more of Delanty’s work, gallery-goers are invited to visit his website at delantyfineart.com.

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