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“Making it look realistic, yet having a completely loose, painterly feel is the ultimate goal in a successful painting” – Greg LaRock
Education
• Bachelor of Fine Arts, Drawing & Painting
Long Beach State University, Long Beach, California
Professional Affiliations
• American Impressionist Society
• American Society of Marine Artists
• California Art Club
• Laguna Plein-Air Painters Association
• National Oil & Acrylic Painters’ Society
• Oil Painters of America
• Southern California Plein Air Painters Association
Upon graduating CSULB, Greg LaRock went on to establish his own graphic design business for the next 17 years. Several years ago Greg decided to rekindle his love for figure and landscape painting and the pursuit of plein air. “Creating three-dimensionality on canvas is a challenging, life-long pursuit. I aspire to capture the essence of the world on location through composition, by simplifying nature’s beauty, depicting her subtle changes in color, light and shadow … and doing it all with paint.”
As a member of several plein air groups, you’ll regularly find him capturing the light of the Southern California landscape, “Any excuse to get outside and I’m there.”
Greg LaRock won the first place/grand prize at the 2008 Easton Plein Air event in Maryland. He also was awarded the first place, $5000 purchase prize for the Newport Bay Naturalist 2008 Mural Competition in California. Greg has been juried into the Oil Painters of America national show twice, awarded a “Jury’s Top 50” at the Greenhouse Gallery’s Salon International twice, was an invited artist to LPAPA’s 8th and 10th Annual Plein Air Invitational, featured in Southwest Art’s “Artist to Watch” column in November, 2006 and was included in Jack Richeson Fine Art Series book “Plein Air New Mexico.” He lives in Newport Beach, California with his wife and their two basenjis.
AWARDS
Second Place: LPAPA`s Less is More Miniature Show, 2010
First Place: Paint San Clemente - Quick Draw, 2009
First Place: Paint San Clemente, 2009
Jury's Top 50: Salon International, 2009
RayMar Art's 3rd Annual Painting Competition: Top 12 Finalist, 2009
Third Place: Newport Harbor Nautical Museum Plein Air Show, CA, 2008
First Place/Grand Prize: Easton Plein Air, 2008
Best Use of Light: Easton Plein Air, 2008
First Place: Newport Bay Mural Competition, 2008
Honorable Mention: LPAPA`s The Best of Plein Air, 2008
Honorable Mention: CCA "Coastal Splendor" Plein Air Invitational, 2007
Second Place: Paint San Clemente - Quick Draw, 2007
Second Place: Paint San Clemente, 2007
Honorable Mention: LPAPA`s The Best of Plein Air, 2007
Honorable Mention: Socalpapa`s Painting the Calif Landscape, 2007
Honorable Mention: Borrego Springs Plein Air Invitational, 2007
Third Place: LPAPA`s Less is More Miniature Show, 2006
Honorable Mention: Bower`s Plein Air Invitational, 2006
First Place: Paint San Clemente - Quick Draw, 2006
Third Place: Paint San Clemente, 2006
Jury`s Top Fifty: Salon International, 2006
Artist`s Choice: Socalpapa`s Painting the Calif Landscape, 2006
Honorable Mention: LPAPA`s The Best of Plein Air, 2006
2nd Place: Huntington Beach Plein Air Festival, 2005
Honorable Mention: Bower`s Plein Air Invitational, 2005
Honorable Mention: Paint San Clemente - Quick Draw, 2005
Honorable Mention: Paint San Clemente, 2005
2nd Place: Spring Orange County Arts Exhibition, 2005
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