LPAPA Signature Artist Lisa Skelly
Balboa Island, California
LisaSkelly.com

Lisa studied graphic design at Northern Illinois University, that started her lifelong career in art. Right out of college, Lisa decided to travel the world as a flight attendant, until her first child and husband grounded her and she started her first art business, Deux Brosses, a faux finishing and mural company. Lisa fell in love with fine art and especially Plein Air. She explored many different mediums and decided on pastels as her favorite.  She studied with colorist, Camille Przewodek, to take her skills and abilities to higher levels. She has studied with some of the best Plein Air Artists in the country, including Ken Auster, Debra Huse, Kim Lordier, Clark Mitchell and many more.  In 2017, Lisa relocated to Newport Beach, Ca, and resumed her longtime love affair with the ocean.

LPAPA Signature Artist Keiko Tanabe
Carlsbad, California
www.KTanabeFineArt.com

Keiko was born in Kyoto, Japan.  As a child growing up in an art-loving family, she always enjoyed drawing and painting and won many awards in children’s art contests.  However, art was not her chosen field of study later on.  She earned a B.A. in intercultural communication (International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan) and an M.A. in international education (UCLA, California).  She then worked in international relations positions in a Japanese government trade organization in Tokyo, at a large law firm in San Francisco and at a private consulting firm in San Diego.  For decades, she has traveled extensively, mainly in European countries, Asia and North America.

Through all these years, Keiko knew there was in her heart the growing desire to someday become an artist.  That, fueled by her love of travel and strong interest in other cultures, eventually found its way out in 2003.  After learning basic drawing and watercolor painting skills at a local community school in San Diego, she took on her first project as an artist together with her father, a renowned scholar of French literature in Japan.

Received LPAPA Signature Artist designation in 2019

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 2004 “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.

LPAPA’s Founder’s Award Winner – Laguna Plein Air Invitational – October 2016

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