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Ray Roberts

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LPAPA Signature Artist Ray Roberts

LPAPA Signature Artist Ray Roberts
Angels Camp, California
RayRobertsArt.Com

Award winning artist Ray Roberts grew up in Orange County, California with orange groves, before the days of freeways and sprawling housing developments. It has given him an enduring affection for the untamed, undeveloped California of his youth. Ray first pursued a career as an illustrator, establishing a studio in Los Angeles and then Scottsdale. He switch to fine art in 1992 and has never looked back. Ray shared the 2003 “Best in Show” award with LPAPA Signature Artist Michael Obermeyer. In 2004, he shared the “Best in Show” award with LPAPA Signature Artist Calvin Liang for the 6th Annual Laguna Beach Plein Air Painting Invitational. In 2006 he shared the Laguna Invitational “Best in Show” award with artist Joe McGurl, and in both 2011 and 2015 he was presented with the Laguna Beach Plein Air Painting Invitational “Best in Show” awards. Ray was recognized with LPAPA’s 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award for his exceptional body of work and teaching.

1999 1st Annual Laguna Plein Air Invitational Honorable Mention Award
2003 5th Annual Laguna Plein Air Invitational “Artists’ Choice” Best in Show Award
2004 6th Annual Laguna Plein Air Invitational “Artists’ Choice” Best in Show Award
2006 8th Annual Laguna Plein Air Invitational “Artists’ Choice” Best in Show Award
2011 13th Annual Laguna Plein Air Invitational Best in Show Award
2015 17th Annual Laguna Plein Air Invitational Best in Show Award
2016 18th Annual Laguna Plein Air Invitational Founder’s Award Winner
2023 25th Annual Laguna Plein Air Painters Association Lifetime Achievement Award
Invited LPAPA Gallery Artist – The Invitational Legacy: Then & Now – June 2026

Jason Sacran

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LPAPA Signature Artist Jason Sacran

LPAPA Signature Artist Jason Sacran
Fort Smith, Arkansas
JasonSacran.com

Jason Sacran is an award winning artist with a BFA in painting from Tennessee Tech University. Jason was the curator for the Fort Smith Art Center for almost three years. In 2010 Jason became a full-time artist/painter, and part-time instructor for the University of Arkansas Fort Smith. Although known for his figurative and portrait work, Jason is quickly rising as a top plein air painter, and considers plein air one of, if not his favorite subject.

Honorable Mention & People’s Choice Award – LPAPA’s Town & Country – January 2019
LPAPA’s Award of Excellence – Laguna Plein Air Invitational – October 2017
Honorable Mention Award – LPAPA’s 13th Annual Best of Plein Air – June 2017

Anthony Salvo

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LPAPA Signature Artist Anthony Salvo
LPAPA Signature Artist Anthony Salvo
Newport Beach, California
SalvoFineArt.com

Anthony Salvo has lived in Southern California since the age of 12. That’s when he discovered oil painting. Always drawing and painting as a young child he knew that art would be his vocation. With an impressive art background spanning over many years, Anthony enjoys plein air landscape painting as well as studio painting. He attended Art Center College of Design where he graduated with honors, receiving a BFA in Graphic Design and Packaging. Anthony joined LPAPA’s Board of Directors in 2021.

2nd Place Signature Member Award – 1st Annual LPAPA Squared – December 2020
2nd Place Award – LPAPA’s Trains, Pleins & Automobiles – September 2017
Honorable Mention Award – LPAPA’s Birds, Bees & Botanicals – April 2017
1st Place Award Winner – LPAPA’s 12th Annual Best of Plein Air – June 2016

Jeff Sewell

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Laguna Plein Air Artist Jeff Sewell

LPAPA Signature Artist & Board Member Jeff Sewell
Laguna Beach, California
JeffSewellArt.com

Jeff Sewell was born and raised in Southern California. Jeff is well known for his paintings of California scenery, although he spends many trips throughout the year traveling to paint the great Western scenery of Colorado, Utah and Arizona. He paints predominantly “en plein air” and also enjoys developing works in his studio. Jeff is LPAPA’s Director of Education and leads the Plein Air Project’s Younger Generation program.

Invited LPAPA Gallery Artist – The Invitational Legacy: Then & Now – June 2026
2022 2nd Place Signature Artist Award – 3rd Annual LPAPA Squared All Member Show
2022 Best in Show – 24th Annual Laguna Plein Air Invitational
2021 Lifetime Achievement Award – 23rd Annual Laguna Plein Air Invitational
2020 Artists’ Choice Award – 22nd Annual Laguna Plein Air Invitational
2019 Facebook People’s Choice Award – 13th Annual Less is More
2016 American Art Collector Award – 19th Annual Laguna Plein Air Invitational
18th Annual Laguna Invitational Invited Artist – 2016
17th Annual Laguna Invitational Collectors Choice & Higbee Gallery Awards – 2015
16th Annual Laguna Invitational Invited Artist – 2014
15th Annual Laguna Invitational Laguna Canyon Foundation Award – 2013
14th Annual Laguna Invitational Invited Artist – 2012
13th Annual Laguna Invitational Collectors’ Choice Award – 2011
12th Annual Laguna Invitational Invited Artist – 2010
11th Annual Laguna Invitational Invited Artist – 2009
10th Annual Laguna Invitational Invited Artist – 2008

Randall Sexton (1958 – 2023)

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Laguna Invitational Artist Randall Sexton

LPAPA Signature Artist Randall Sexton
Vallejo, California
RCSexton.com

Randy is nationally known for the use of color and expressive brushwork in his oil paintings of “everyday” scenes. Raised in rural Connecticut, Sexton moved to San Francisco, CA in 1980 after completing a BFA from the University of CT, Storrs. The Bay area has proven to be home, where he has earned a great reputation for being an educator as well as a fine artist. He taught classes in drawing, painting, and composition at the San Francisco Academy of Art, and now leads private workshops around the country.