Artist Greg LaRock
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The Artist Says:
“Making it look realistic, yet having a completely loose, painterly feel is the ultimate goal in a successful painting” – Greg LaRock
Biography
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
Greg LaRock’s passion is to capture the outdoor landscape and its ever-changing light and beauty. The challenge of depicting the three-dimensional world onto canvas is a difficult pursuit, but when it all comes together, it is an extremely rewarding experience. “When the gap between believability and painterly expression is merged, I’ve done my job.”
A signature member of both LPAPA and ASMA plus an artist member of the CAC, Greg has won numerous awards for his painting excellence including the $5000 first place/grand prize at the Easton Plein Air event in Maryland and the top purchase prize awards for the Newport Bay Naturalist Mural Competition in California and at the Callaway Gardens Plein Air Show in Georgia. Greg has been juried into four of the Oil Painters of America national shows, awarded a “Jury’s Top 50” at the Greenhouse Gallery’s Salon International twice, was an invited artist five times to LPAPA’s annual Plein Air Invitational. He has also been featured in Southwest Art’s “Artist to Watch” column and included in Jack Richeson Fine Art Series book “Plein Air New Mexico.”
A sought-after instructor for plein air workshops, he resides in Newport Beach, California with his wife and their two basenjis.
AWARDS
Third Place: Paint San Clemente, 2012Honorable Mention: Paint San Clemente, 2012Third Place (Quick Draw): Callaway Gardens Plein Air, 2012Third Place: LPAPA's Less is More Miniature Show, 2012
Purchase Prize: Callaway Gardens Plein Air, 2011Second Place (Quick Draw): Easton Plein Air, 2011Third Place: Just Plein Fun, 2010
Honorable Mention: Easton Plein Air, 2010First Place: Fine Art Views Art Competition, 2010Second Place: [...]
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