PHILOMATH OPEN STUDIOS 2023 OCTOBER 21-22 & 28-29 NOON TO 5 PM
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Laurel Buchanan
www.laurelbuchanan.com
Laurel Buchanan was born in Southern California and raised on a citrus orchard at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains. At a young age she began drawing and painting subjects she loved from the natural world. She majored in art in college, graduating in 1983 from California State University, Long Beach. Following college, she worked for several years in the Los Angeles area in the fields of graphic and surface design, gaining valuable insights into color and pattern which still influence her art today. For the last decade she has dedicated herself artistically to her primary passion, painting with oils.
Laurel prefers to paint en plein air. She says, “When I see the natural light outdoors, and smell the scents and hear the sounds and feel the breeze, I am confronted with the great challenge of transferring to my canvas all the feelings that nature has evoked in me. It is the ‘feel’ of a view I want to convey, rather than every detail.” She loves to find scenes from everyday life, capturing the simple beauties that surround us all, so she is constantly searching for a compelling composition that inspires her to experiment with color and light in a fresh way.
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Host Artists
Dale Donovan
Debi Friedlander
Babette Grunwald
Jeff Gunn
Linda Herd
Ann Lahr
Kate McGee
Kris Mitchell
Sara Morrissey
Merrill Sommers
Debby Sundbaum-Sommers
Leslie Tejada
Justin Wolford
Guest Artists
Dominique Bachelet
Chris Bentley
Phil Coleman
Gale Everett
Mark Gillespie
Anthony Gordon
Kristin Lee Hager
Carol Houk
Jean Lawrence
Beth Rietveld
Steve Terhune
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