"BLOOMING CALIFORNIA POPPIES" LANDSCAPE BRILLIANT YELLOW WILDFLOWERS.
By Ray Roberts
Located in San Antonio, TX
Ray Roberts
(Born 1957)
Southern California Artist
Image Size: 12 x 16
Frame Size: 19 1/4 x 23 1/4
Medium: Oil ON BOARD SIGNED
"Blooming California Poppies" California Landscape
Ray Roberts(Born 1957)
Born and raised in Southern California, Ray Roberts became a plein air* painter of desert and coastal landscapes.
He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from the Art Center College of Design* in Pasadena. His first studio was in Scottsdale, Arizona, and in 1997, he and his artist wife, Peggi Kroll Roberts, and their three children moved to Angel's Camp, California to a small ranch. He is a regular instructor of painting at the Scottsdale Artists' School.
In August, 2000, Roberts won Best of Show for his painting Curtis Creek at the American Impressionist Society's* show in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Source:
Southwest Art, October 2004
Ray Roberts is one of California's most respected Plein Air artists. He has recently won the Gold Medal for "Best Painting" at the California Art Club and the Artists' Choice Award, the highest accolade from fellow artists, at three major Southwest art events. Ray Roberts is best known for his seascapes, figurative work, and majestic views of California and the Southwest.
Ray Roberts' vibrant use of color, bold textures, and sensitivity to shifting patterns of light give life and movement to his paintings. They are to be experienced, not merely observed.
Inspired by such early California impressionists as Hanson Puthuff, William Wendt, and William Ritschel, Ray Roberts seeks to capture the luminous, golden light and the magnificent, vanishing landscapes of his native state. Like his other great hero, Maynard Dixon, Ray Roberts shares a reverence for the land and a marked spirituality in his work.
Ray Roberts believes in the importance of artistic legacy. "There's a brotherhood of painters who came before me and who will come after. We speak in the past, present, and future. We talk about our experience and personality, our torments and exhilarations; we talk about the beauty of the fleeting light, time and of our family, friends and acquaintances."
Born in 1954, Ray Roberts grew up in an Orange County 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.
One boyhood neighbor was painter Evelyn Nunn Miller, who would let Ray Roberts into her studio to retrieve the balls he'd hit over her fence. Later, after the early death of his father and mother's ill-health, Ray Roberts was sent to Orme School, a beautiful, ranch-style boarding school in the Arizona desert. Its strong fine arts program helped Ray Roberts to discover his artistic talent.
He then attended the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, where he studied under John Asaro. He has also studied under Dan McCaw, Len Chmiel, and Mark Daily.
Art Center is where Ray Roberts also met his wife, impressionist painter Peggi Kroll. While dating, the two of them would go out nightclubbing, to sketch rather than dance! It has been a successful partnership ever since.
Like many successful artists before him, Ray Roberts first pursued a career as an illustrator, establishing a studio in Los Angeles and then Scottsdale, Arizona. He got up the courage to switch to fine art in 1992 and has never looked back. Ray and Peggi now live with their three children and assorted animals on a 20 acre ranch in Angel's Camp, an old California gold rush town, surrounded by the oak-studded hills which he frequently paints.
The great outdoors is RayRoberts' studio. A bit of an adventurer, he's been known to backpack for several days into the wilderness, set up his easel on a cliff edge, or in the surf, for just the right setting.
Awards and Affiliations
Signature Member - Plein Air Painters of America (PAPA)
Signature Member - California Art Club (CAC)
Signature Member - Laguna Plein Air Painters Association (LPAPA)
Signature Member - Northwest Rendezvous
2007 - Haggin Museum, Stockton
2007 - Santa Lucia Preserve, Invitational En Plein Air, Carmel, CA
2007 Exhibitor, Arizona: A Millennium of Arizona Art, Mark Sublette Medicine Man Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2004 Gold Medal for "Best Painting" at the California Art Club's 94th Annual Gold Medal Juried Exhibition, Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, California
2004 Artists' Choice Award- Laguna Plein Air Invitational Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California
2004 Artists' Choice Award- Maynard Dixon Country Invitational Mount Carmel, Utah
2003 Artists' Choice, Laguna Plein Air Invitational, Laguna, California
2003 Artists' Choice Award, Carmel Plein Air Festival, Carmel, California
2003 Honorable Mention, Carmel Plein Air Festival, Carmel, California
2003 Maynard Dixon Award, Sonoran Desert Invitational, Tucson, Arizona
2002 Honorable Mention, Laguna Plein Air Invitational, Laguna, California
2001 Honorable Mention, Scene on the Straight, Vallejo, California
2001 American Artist Magazine Award for Excellence, Oil Painters of America National Juried Show, Palm Desert, California
2000 Best of Show, American Impressionist Society, Cincinnati, Ohio
1999 Honorable Mention, Laguna Plein Air Invitational, Laguna, California
1999 Best Seascape, Ebell Club Annual Art Show, Los Angeles, California
1999 Artists' Choice Award, Carmel Plein Air Festival, Carmel, California
1995 Best of Show, Phippen Memorial Art Show, Prescott, Arizona
1995 First Place Oil, Phippen Memorial Art Show, Prescott, Arizona
1995 Best of Show, Beaver Creek Art...
Category
2010s Impressionist Paintings
