~ Ray Roberts ~ “A chance phone call to Scottsdale Artists' School led us to our first year participating in the LPAPA Invitational. Peggi's cousin, Heidi Grunewald, passed our names on to the brand new Laguna Plein Air Painters Association as a recommendation in their inaugural year at the Laguna Art Museum. We were the newbies. Kids in tow, Peggi painted them on the beach. Our lives were changing in so many ways. Thank you Heidi! Plein Air painting is serious business, despite
first impressions. Creating a luminous painting requires attention to the basics while listening to your artists' voice. I have always been attracted to paintings with subjects depicting light and luminosity. This fascination has brought me to this submission for the LPAPA Legacy Show of “Afternoon Light, Main Beach” nearly 40 years later.” Ray Roberts is one of California's most respected Plein Air artists. He is best known for his seascapes, figurative work, and majestic views of California and the Southwest. Ray has participated in the LPAPA Invitational 19 times, and has won the top award a record number of 6 of those years.
2003 Invitational Best In Show “Sycamore”
2006 Invitational Best In Show “Morning Light Laguna”
2004 Invitational Best In Show “Trabuco Canyon”
2011 Invitational Best In Show “Morning Tide Laguna Bluff”
2015 Invitational Best In Show “Morning on Main Beach”
2011 Invitational Best In Show “Laguna Moonrise”
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