Special Studies: "Georgia O'Keeffe"
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About the Instructor
Janyce Erlich-Moss
Janyce Erlich-Moss is an artist residing and working in San Diego, California. She uses mixed media to explore ways of seeing through both painting and photographic media. She earned a BA in Art from California State University, Northridge and an MFA in Fine Art Photography from George Washinton University. In recent years, she has chosen to paint because it allows for both freedom of expression and the visual representation of emotion. Her color palette is influenced by memories, dreams, music, and past experiences as a photographer. Her painting emerges from her unconscious. She does not work from any reference materials, simply focusing on her own mood, color preferences in the moment and then allowing a painting to “start itself”. While her paintings are an extension of her long career as a photographic artist, they are rarely realistic depictions of specific objects, scenes or still lives. She has won several awards for her acrylic paintings exhibited at Ashton Gallery. Her photographic work has been exhibited several museums in the United States and in galleries around the world.
About the Instructor
Peter Hartshorn
Peter grew up in Pennsylvania as one of five brothers, surrounded by noise, energy, and a love of science and imagination. His career as a geologist carried him and his family around the world—to South America, Africa, and beyond—and those landscapes became the heart of his paintings.
He paints loose to abstract landscapes in acrylics, with a focus on color rather than strict form. From the deep tones of jungles and highlands to the bright light of coastal tropics, He captures the feeling of a place more than just its appearance.
Over the years, He has shown his work in Caracas, Venezuela, Cleveland and San Diego where he now lives. He continues to paint and share the places that inspired him.
Short Version
Peter Hartshorn is a San Diego–based painter whose impressionist acrylic landscapes are inspired by his life as a geologist. His work emphasizes color and atmosphere, reflecting the diverse and remote places where he has lived and worked.
About the Instructor
Jenna Cooper
I am an abstract artist that makes genuinely joyful, bright, fun original artwork that is full of movement, color, shape and texture. I have a Bachelor of Arts in Drawing, Painting & Printing from Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego, studied art at Florence University of the Arts in Florence, Italy and owned a gallery of my own, Glory Art Gallery & Studio, in 2018. Now, I’m happily married to my college sweetheart and we have two little boys running around. They are my little inspirations!
I love teaching painting and drawing to students who desire to get out of their own head when it comes to creating and feel free to make art with joyful wonder. My goal is to put the technicalities that confine the mind to the side and help my students trust their intuition and have fun! One of the biggest joys I have is seeing my students full of confidence by the end of my classes. So thankful to share my love for art with you!
About the Instructor
Kristen Guest
Kristen is an award-winning and published full-time artist and art instructor in Southern California. She graduated from art school at Middle Tennessee State University with a degree in Art Education, that focused on painting, book arts and printmaking, and has completed several courses towards her MFA in Corporate Media, that focused on multi-media campaigns and brand design. Kristen has been teaching realism painting since 2004 and abstract painting since 2018. She currently the Director of Education and heads up the Keys to the Art World mentorship program for Art on 30th in San Diego.
Kristen currently works in three mediums: acrylic, oil/cold wax, and colored pencil. She lives in Poway, CA where she works out of her home studio. Her work is currently represented through Janssen Artspace in Palm Springs CA, Libby Silvia Artstyle in Boston MA, Liza Pruitt in Richmond VA (a gallery partner for Serena & Lily stores), Sandstone Gallery in Laguna Beach CA, and Sorelle Gallery in Westport CT.
Kristen’s work has been on exhibit with Ashton Gallery in San Diego CA, The Athenaeum Arts & Music Library in San Diego CA, Huntington Beach Art Center in Huntington Beach CA, Borrego Art Institute in Borrego Springs CA, Arc Gallery in San Francisco CA, Port Angeles Fine Arts Center in Port Angeles WA, Jen Tough Gallery in Santa Fe NM, Woman Made Gallery in Chicago IL, JAG Gallery in Key West FL, High Point Market in High Point NC, Serena & Lily online store, and Saatchi's The Other Art Fair in Los Angeles.
About the Instructor
Robin Sanford Roberts
Robin Sanford Roberts is an artist and theatrical scenic designer working in models and mixed media. She makes art in studio #5 at Art on 30th. She has designed scenery for multiple theatres including the Old Globe Theatre, San Diego Repertory, Denver Center Theatre Company, Portland Center Stage and Broadway.
She holds a degree in Architecture from LSU and a MFA in Scenic Design from UCSD. She also studied at the Ecole Des Beaux Arts, Fontainebleau and at Sir John Cass School of Art, London Polytechnic. Robin teaches and designs scenery for the undergraduate theatre department at USD.
“I have an obsession with old books and other ephemera. The fragments and bits of pieces come together to make a new piece. I enjoy working with pieces from the past that have a history of a previous life.”
About the Instructor
Lisa Bebi
Lisa Bebi, since a small child, has loved two things: looking through snapshots in her family album and painting as expression. For over three decades, the San Diego native has married these two things together, and her work has received international awards and recognition for its content, style, and color.
Lisa received her BA in fine arts from San Diego State University (SDSU), where she developed as a colorist, straddling representation with abstraction. Daughter of a journalist, Lisa always finds ways to tell the untold story she sees in snapshots. “I love the authenticity of the snapshot. It’s a single moment in time, but by painting it I can extend that moment, revel in it, and bring to life characters and scenarios that I fancy. Working this way gives me enormous pleasure.” She extracts the “behind, the behind” using innovative techniques and finesse.
Over the course of her life she has received awards, accolades, and endorsements. She has been a longtime contributor to many international mixed-media magazines and several books; has taught in artist residencies locally and internationally; is a Golden Paints artist educator; and is often a local juror.
