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| Dorothy Cavanagh |
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I was born and raised in California. My interest in art began early from my portrait artist grandmother, for whom I remember posing as a child. After receiving my BA degree from UCLA, I began painting when my youngest entered first grade. After years of classical training and workshops with artists whose work I love, I have developed my own Impressionist style. I love to travel each year to paint the things I love: The hills of Tuscany, Sunny Provence in France, Northern California, and the fields around my home in Irvine. |
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| Katie Costello |
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A native of the South, Katie grew up in suburban Birmingham, Alabama. She attended Auburn University and was awarded a BA in Textile, Clothing & Fashion Design. Katie began working in oil and then watercolor while living in Atlanta, and later in Northern New England. She was inspired by the natural grandeur of New Hampshire's White Mountains, and the rugged coast of "down east" Maine. After moving to Orange County and subsequent exposure to California Impressionists, Katie's love of oil painting was rediscovered.
As an artist, her goal is to do more than simply capture an image, be it landscape, figure or still life. Katie seeks to share with the viewer the joy and awe she feels as she paints. She tries to touch something in the viewers being, to make them more aware; to "see" the beauty that surrounds us.
Katie loves the challenges of plein air painting; the ever changing light, the weather's many moods and the pesky bugs. She enjoys chatting with the interested passer-by about the beauty around us, and her love of painting. She often learns much about nature and local history from the people she meets while painting in the field.
Katie is an active member of the Southern California Plein Air Painters Association and Laguna Plein Air Painters Association. Katie is married and has three teenage daughters. |
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| Nancy Egan |
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Nancy Egan has been an artist since childhood, selling her first painting at 15 and winning awards in high school. Her early years she was taught and inspired by her father a Yale graduate artist. Seeking to be a scientific artist she received a BS in Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Management. Skilled in many dimensions of art she has developed a deep appreciation of impressionist “plein-air” painting reflecting her training with renowned artist M. Obermeyer, R. Roberts and K. Auster. She has taught oil painting classes for the last 9 years and continues to win awards.Landscape and spiritual images are currently her subject of choice. Her art is very personnal; it is her ministry to bring the Divine to the human world, stirring emotions to raise the human world to God. Nancy maintains her studio in San Clemente CA
Member of
California Art Club
Oil Painters of America
Laguna Plein Air Painters LPAPA
Southern CA Plein Air Painters
San Clemente Art Association
Galleries
Studio 7 - Laguna Beach, CA
Mission Fine Art Gallery - San Juan Capistrano, CA
PS Gallery - Litchfield, CT
Affaire de Coeur, Orange, CA
Art n Frame - San Clemente, CA
Major Exhibitions/Special Recognitions/Awards
2009 La Jolla Art Festival
2009 Orange County Register- Citizen of the week (Feb 21)
2009 Mission San Juan Capistrano CA – Art Exhibit
2008 Orange Coast Magazine Artist of the month, CA
2008 Mission San Juan Capistrano, CA - 4 Women art exhibit- Belle’s of Capistrano
2008 Sawdust Festival Laguna Beach, CA
2006 First Place Paint San Clemente Plein Air Competition, San Clemente, CA
2005 Jury’s Top 20 Bower’s Museum, Santa Ana CA
2005 Third Place– Quick DrawPaint San Clemente, San Clemente, CA
2005 Peoples Choice Award San Clemente Art Club Winter
2003 First Place- How Original Gallery, Laguna Beach, Winter
2002 Third Place San Clemente Plein Air San Clemente CA
1994 – 2002 Art Director/Instructor – Our Lady of Fatima School,
www.NancyEgan.Com
Nancy.Egan@cox.net
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| John Eagle |
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John Eagle was born in Ashtablula, Ohio. He grew up in Hawaii and the San Francisco Bay area. His artistic career began in San Jose, California, where he completed his undergraduate degree.
His post graduate studies were at Otis Art Institute and the Laguna College of Art and Design. He is a member of the Laguna Plein Air Painters Association, Sawdust Art Festival, Southern California Artists Association, and serves as an officer for First Thursdays Art Walk in Laguna Beach. He is an instructor of oil painting for the City of Laguna Beach and the Sawdust Art Festival. John is a registered artist in Who's Who in American Art.
John paints outdoors in a style unique to him in a style called mosaic impressionism. Applying thick, undiluted oil paint with a flat brush, he covers the canvas with downward strokes. The finished painting resembles a mosiac up close, and an impressionistic piece from a distance. His paintings dramatize the quality of light and stimulate a warm positve feeling of serenity and tranquility. |
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| Toni Danchik |
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Toni was born and raised in South Africa. After studying printmaking at the Johannesburg Technical College she worked as an account manager at a design agency. This lead to a position as an in-house graphic artist where she spent the next ten years buying print, designing catalogs and record sleeves, planning advertising campaigns and running their in-house newspaper and monthly newsletters. After moving to the United States in 1994, the artist within started to emerge. She studied with artists like Chris Gwaltney, Jove Wang, Jeffrey Watts and Sebastian Capella and has taken many workshops with well known artists to hone her skill as a fine artist.
Toni is inspired by the Russian artist’s use of color, design and expressive brushwork. She loves to explore the sense of spontaneity and looseness in her work but yet maintaining a respect for accuracy and honesty to her subject matter.
She has been juried into two National OPA Exhibitions and is a member of OPA, CAC, SOCALPAPA.
Contact Information:
www.tonidanchik.com |
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| Alan Nowell |
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Alan Nowell studied drawing and painting at the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles, California with Lorser Feitelson, John La Gatta and Audubon Tyler. He has continued his education through the years, studying Plein Air painting with Jeff Horn and Elizabeth Tolley, and studying portrait painting with Daniel Green, and John Howard Sanden.
Alan paints plein air and portraits. His home is in San Clemente, CA where he lives with his wife Nancy and two Jack Russell Terriers.
RECENT SHOWS
2008 Honorable Mention, Newport Harbor Nautical Museum Show
2008 Artists Choice Award, Estes Park Plein Air
2008 SoCal Artists “Go Figure” Show
2008 Carmel Plein Air Festival
2008 Second Place Riverside Plein Air Paint Out
2008 Riverside Art Museum Permanent Collection Show
2007 LPAPA “Less is More” Show
2007 Second Place Corona Frascella show
2007 First Place SCAA Winter Show
2007 First Place, Estes Park Plein Air Quick Draw
2007 Paint San Clemente Show & Quick Draw
2007 First Place, SCAA Spring Judged Show
2007 Top Dog Award, Riverside Art Museum
2006 Riverside Plein Air Paint Out
2006 SOCALPAPA Paints Back Bay
2006 Paint San Clemente Show & Quick Draw
2006 Carmel Plein Air Festival
2006 VIVA Gallery Plein Air Show
2006 One Man Show - Laguna Hills Community Center
2005 Carmel Plein Air Festival
2005 SOCALPAPA Paints Back Bay
2005 Paint San Clemente Show & Quick Draw
2005 Riverside Plein Air Paint Out
MEMBERSHIPS & ASSOCIATIONS
SCAA (San Clemente Art Association)
LPAPA (Laguna Beach Plein Air Painters Association)
SOCALPAPA (So. Calif. Plein Air Painters Association)
CAA (Corona Art Association)
PAAR (Plein Air Artists of Riverside)
RIVERSIDE ART MUSEUM
PORTRAIT INSTITUTE, New York - Charter Member
GALLERYS
Studio 7 South Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
Cultural Arts Council Gallery, Estes Park, CO
Mission Fine Arts Gallery, San Juan Capistrano, CA
Crystal Cove Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
MUSEUMS
Riverside Art Museum Permanent Collection (2 pieces) |
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| Lynn Wiederman |
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Lynn Wiederman has devoted her entire professional life to the arts. A graduate of California State University Long Beach with a Bachelors Degree in Fine Art, Lynn spent many years in the graphic arts field working with design firms and creative companies like Mattel Toys and Tomy Toys.
Lynn's passion turned toward the fine arts, which she now devotes much of her time. Her specialty is "en plein air" painting where Laguna Beach and Southern California provide a wealth of inspiration.
Her paintings have been displayed in many prestigious shows including the 1998 France Exhibition at the Art Institute of Southern California, the 2000 Laguna Plein Air Painters Association (LPAPA) at Gallery 133, the Millard Sheets Gallery, the Seaside Gallery and the Debra Huse Gallery. Lynn was the Chairperson for the 2001 LPAPA Exhibition at Gallery 133. Lynn continues to refine and enhance her artistic skills through workshops and courses held around the world. Lynn currently shows at Studio 7 Gallery in Laguna Beach.
http://www.lynnwiederman.com |
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| Jeff Yeomans |
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Jeff Yeomans is a native Californian, born in 1954 and raised in a family that encouraged his artistic pursuits. He was initially a muralist, illustrator, and graphic designer, and his art career includes a decade in public television as an award-winning art director.
Painting has become his preferred medium, and incorporating influences of both past and contemporary artists, he creates unique perspectives that capture glimpses of our daily experiences. A visual journal of light, color, and form, he explores the fragile beauty of California and the growth and connected urban landscape that impact it.
"As a regional painter, I feel a responsibility to document California today, in the same way the early California painters did in their era. I enjoy painting landscapes, especially when they increase our awareness of the value of open space and nature. I also hope that a study of an older neighborhood, of people working, or of Spanish dancers at a Southern California car show, all bring a respect to and celebrate the diversity of the region."
Yeomans is represented by Studio 7 Gallery in Laguna Beach and lives near the ocean in San Diego with his wife and two children.
Styles: Figurative, landscape, cityscape, representational Memberships: California Art Club; San Diego Art Institute; San Diego Museum of Art Artists Guild; Southern California Plein Air Painters Association; Laguna Plein Air Painters Association
Classes: Workshop with Ken Auster
Awards & Exhibits: Maurice Braun Award, January 2004, La Jolla Art Association; 2004 April, Juror's Choice Award -- San Diego Art Institute Regional Exhibition; Best of Show (2-Dimensional Work) Art-A-Fair Festival, Laguna Canyon, 2003; 2003 Jan-March, Wave Bench -- The Benchmark Project (a city-wide public arts project)
Website: www.jeffyeomans.com |
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| Jim Wodark |
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Jim Wodark is an award winning plein air artist who was born and raised in Colorado. Throughout childhood, his parents, both artistic in their own right, were incredibly encouraging of his creativity, but drew the line (so to speak) when he filled his 2nd grade teacher's shoes with paint. He went on to earn his Bachelor's degree in Marketing from University of Northern Colorado and attempted to fulfill his passion for art by taking an art class each semester. After several years of working real jobs, and trying to fit art around his schedule, it occurred to him that he either was or was not an artist. Luckily for his many fans and patrons, he chose the former.
He started out putting his keen observation skills and humor to use as a cartoonist. Fourteen years later, attracted to the attitude and economy, He moved to Southern California. He found true love in Julie, now his wife of 11 years, and in fine art, as he began to explore the plein air technique, originally using watercolors and acrylics. "When you grow up in Colorado, it's hard not to love the outdoors. For me, being outside and capturing the light, mood and atmosphere on a canvas for other people to enjoy, is just an incredible feeling."
His next breakthrough came with the birth of his first child, and his discovery of oil paints as his medium of choice. As his family grew (twin girls!!!) so did his commitment to being a great father, husband and prolific painter, painting out in the field or in the studio every single day. "I paint to express myself. I feel compelled to share the inspiration that I feel when I see a beautiful scene, to be inspired and inspire in return. I want to translate the beauty around me -- a fleeting moment -- into something permanent and timeless that brings those same feelings to life for each viewer.
Having dedicated himself to art for the last 22 years and counting, Jim continues to challenge himself creatively by approaching each painting as an opportunity to try something new. "My intention is to paint my masterpiece every time I paint a picture. This gives me never ending room to grow and experiment with my art."
And whenever he hits the inevitable rough patch, he just thinks back to that moment when he decided to commit himself to art. The power of that decision, and the path it created, never fail to get that paint brush moving again. "I am doing what I love and hopefully that joy is reflected in my work. I strive very hard to make each and every piece reflect the person that I am and the artist I am becoming."
Jim is a member of several painting groups: Laguna Plein Air Painters Association, Southern California Plein Air Painters Association and just recently he was juried into being an "Artist Member" of the prestigious California Art Club.
Shows and awards:
Fourth Place Raymar National Yearlong Art Competition 2007 out of 1,400 entries
First Place University of Redlands Plein Air Painting Competition 2007
Second Place The Lodge at Torrey Pines Plein Air Invitational 2007
Best Of Show SOCALPAPA Newport Peninsula Plein Air 2007
Honoraable Mention SOCALPAPA Newport Peninsula Plein Air 2007
Second Place "Quick Draw" SOCALPAPA Newport Peninsula Plein Air 2007
Honorable Mention Heritage Art Show Irvine Land Trust 2007
Honorable Mention LPAPA "Best of Plein Air" 2007
Two paintings Juried into the California Art Club's Gold Medal Show 2007
Second Place in the Raymar National painting competition out of 1,700 entries.
9th Place in the Raymar National painting competition.
15th Place Honorable mention in the Raymar National painting competition.
28 painitngs of the final 144 in the Raymar National yearlong painting competition.
Second Place in the LPAPA Members Show 2006
First Place LPAPA "Best of Plein Air Show" 2006
California Art Club "Artist Member" (Juried into membership 2005)
Art-a-fair Poster Artist 2006
Honorable Mention Crystal Cove Show 2005
Second Place San Clemente Plein Air Painting Competition 2005
First Place at the San Clemente "Quick Draw" Competition 2005
Honorable Mention LPAPA Members Show 2005
First Place at the SOCALPAPA Best of the Back Bay 2004
First Place at the San Clemente Plein Air Painting Competition 2004
First Place at the San Clemente "Quick Draw" Competition 2004
Artist Choice Award SOCALPAPA Best of the Back Bay 2003
LPAPA members show 2002, 2003, 2004,2005
Art-a-Fair Laguna Beach 2003, 2004, 2005
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| Kathleen Robison |
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A Southern California native, Kathleen Robison took her creative passion in cartooning and greeting card design to painting landscapes of the California coastline.
With a BA in American Studies and a BFA in Art from CSU Fullerton, she continues to develop her artistic style through workshops, lectures and painting on a daily basis.
Her style is influenced by the Impressionists using broad and loose brush strokes. Her palette allows her to express emotion and capture that moment-in-time in the tradition of the plein air painter.
" I am constantly amazed how color, design and subject matter can evoke emotion. It gives us an opportunity to pause, to take a deep breath and contemplate beauty... to rest a bit in the moment."
She is a member of LPAPA, the Orange County Fine Arts Association and the San Clemente Art Club.
www.kathleenmrobison.com
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CONTEMPORARY IMPRESSIONIST PAINTER
Janine Levy Salzman was born and spent her formative years in the exotic Tunis, Tunisia, in North Africa. Inspired as a child by the mingled sights, sounds and flavors of the French, Arabic and Sephardic cultures of this Mediterranean seaport, she wanted to paint the beauty that surrounded her. However, her earliest creative impulses were stifled by her conservative Orthodox family.
Later in Paris where she attended secondary school, she discovered the great French and British landscape painters such as Corot and Constable and was captivated by the genius of nineteenth century impressionist masters such as Cezanne, Van Gogh, and Monet. But her family continued to discourage her from pursuing the study of art.
Finally in Los Angeles years later as a young wife and mother of two daughters she found herself liberated, back in Mediterranean-like sunlight and now exposed to the strong plein air painting tradition of the nineteenth and twentieth century California. Now she was determined to follow her dream. She dedicated every moment she could to painting. After years of disciplined hard work and many courses taught by international contemporary masters such as C. Hartley, J. Mendez and J. Wang, she has fulfilled her dream of becoming a professional artist.
Her work is featured at Studio 7 Gallery, Villas & Veranda Gallery, and in numerous private collections. In addition she has been recognized by her peers with numerous awards for her plein air landscapes, still lives, figures and portraits.
Janine maintains active contact with her fellow artists through workshops and memberships in such professional groups such as the Southern California Plein Air Painter, California Art Club, and Laguna Plein Air Painters., American Impresssionist Society and Oil Painters of America.
ARTISTIC STATEMENT
In every painting I strive to bring out the soul of my subject, to show it's many dimensions and spiritual qualities. With this as my goal, I find my paintings have more depth, power and meaning tome.
My hope is tosomehow portray what I feel about the subject in a simple way.
www.JannineSalzman.com
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| Rachel Uchizono |
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A California native, Rachel Uchizono spent years in New York, where the varied landscapes and seasonal changes of the northeast inspired her affinity for the outdoors. Now a resident of Laguna Beach, Rachel began to formalize her love for the wilderness through painting. Many of her works capture the myriad of light and color prevalent in the California coastline’s landscapes and seascapes. Her still life paintings echo this sensitivity to light, shadow and the vivid colors of native flowers and foliage.
Rachel Uchizono has devoted the last several years to studying and refining her skills in the “plein air” tradition. She exhibits at Studio 7 Gallery in Laguna Beach.
“California provides a remarkable landscape for capturing the play of light and color in nature. I actively pursue inspiration from wild and undiscovered locations, seeking a unique view of this magnificent region of the country.”
- 2004 Laguna Art Museum Auction received "Artist's Choice Award"
- 2005 Maynard Dixon Artist in residence
- 2006 Borrego Springs Invitational
- 2008 LPAPA Best of Plein Air Show
- 2009 High Noon Show Phoenix, AZ
- 2001-2009 Studio 7 Gallery Laguna Beach, CA
- 2003-2009 The Sawdust Festival
Contact information: racheluchizono@cox.net cell 949 929 7073
Rachel Uchizono is now exhibiting at the Studio 7 Gallery North location at 384A N. Coast Highway in Laguna Beach.
Studio 7 Gallery 2 at Bluebird Center
1590 S. Coast Highway
Laguna Beach, CA 92651
949.715.0012
Open Daily 11AM - 5PM
Shuttle Stop 5 on Laguna's First Thursday Art Walk
Studio 7 Gallery 1 at Gallery Row
384A N.. Coast Highway
Laguna Beach, CA 92651
949.497.1080
Open Daily 11AM - 5PM
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| Janine Salzman |
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Janine Levy Salzman was born and spent her formative years in the exotic Tunis, Tunisia, in North Africa. Inspired as a child by the mingled sights, sounds and flavors of the French, Arabic and Sephardic cultures of this Mediterranean seaport, she wanted to paint the beauty that surrounded her.
Later in Paris where she attended secondary school, she discovered and was captivated by the great French Impressionist masters such as Cezanne, Monet and especially Van Gogh.
Finally in Los Angeles years later as a young wife and mother of two daughters she found herself liberated, back in Mediterranean-like sunlight and now exposed to the strong plein air painting tradition of nineteenth and twentieth century California. Now she was determined to follow her dream. She dedicated every moment she could to painting. After years of disciplined hard work and many courses taught by international contemporary masters such as Jove Wang, C. Hartley, J. Mendez, she has fulfilled her dream of becoming a professional artist.
Her work is featured at Studio 7 Gallery,Villas & Veranda Gallery, Icehouse gallery, and in numerous private collections. In addition she has been recognized by her peers with numerous awards for her plein air landscapes, still lives, figures and portraits.
Janine maintains active contact with her fellow artists through workshops and memberships in such professional groups such as the Southern California Plein Air Painter, California Art Club, and Laguna Plein Air Painters.
ARTISTIC STATEMENT
IN EVERY PAINTING I STRIVE TO CAPTURE THE SOUL OF MY SUBJECT. TO SHOW IT'S MANY DIMENSIONS AND SPIRITUAL QUALITIES. WITH THIS AS MY GOAL, I FIND MY PAINTINGS HAVE MORE DEPTH, POWER AND MEANING TO ME. MY HOPE IS TO PORTRAY WHAT I FEEL IN A SIMPLE WAY.
www.janinesalzman.com
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