Gold Medal Winners

Brian Blood

China Cove, Point Lobos

Oil on canvas, 30" x 24" , $14,000

Recipient of The Irvine Museum Award

Eric Fei Guan

Teenage Girl

Oil on canvas, 20" x 24", $18,000

Recipient of The American Art Collector Award of Excellence

James Tennison

Sharp-Shinned Hawk

Oil on canvas, 16" x 12", $2,400

Recipient of The American Art Review Award of Excellence

Kathleen Hudson

Laguna Nocturne

Oil on linen, 24" x 48", $6,900

Recipient of The Art of the West Award of Excellence

Brittany Ryan

Covid Self-Portrait

Aqua resin with oil paint, 16" x 10" x 10", $1,850

Recipient of The Fine Art Connoisseur Award of Excellence

Artist Proof

Covid Self-Portrait is a response to the time I was forced to spend with myself during the lockdown. I had never done a sculpted self-portrait and models weren’t an option, I found it the perfect time.

– Brittany Ryan

Michael Godfrey

Morning Has Broken

Oil on canvas, 24" x 36", $17,500

Recipient of The Plein Air Magazine Award of Excellence

There are moments when the heavens open up and illuminate the landscape, as if the landscape itself is being showcased on a stage. These moments are often fleeting, and I do my best to take in the feeling and the experience so that I might be able to capture it on canvas. Morning Has Broken encompasses all that I love about the California coast.

– Michael Godfrey

Karl Dempwolf

Timeless Zion

Oil on linen, 26" x 32", $12,000

Recipient of The Southwest Art Magazine Award of Excellence

If it were not for comments made by my artistic heroes, confiding in us that a painting he has been trying to finish had to be scraped from his canvas three times and re-worked, I would imagine I was all alone in my struggles to get a painting right and to be happy with the final results.

– Karl Dempwolf

Cindy Baron

Soaring Heights

Oil on linen, 20" x 20" , $4,700

Recipient of The Western Art & Architecture Award of Excellence

Tom Arbour

Walter Johnson

Cast resin, 26" x 10" x 9", $8,700

Recipient of The California Art Club Sculpture Recognition Award

Artist Proof

In 1936, Walter Johnson and four other greats were the original inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame and thereafter became known as the “Five Immortals.” As a baseball fan and Orange County resident, I was surprised to learn that Johnson was raised in Olinda, California, a small community east of Brea. Walter attended Fullerton Union High School where in a ball game against Santa Ana High School he struck out 27 batters in 15 innings. He went on to play for the Washington Senators when they won the World Series in 1924. Later, Johnson and Babe Ruth would come back to Orange County to play in an exhibition game in Brea, which was attended by thousands of fans. What I have attempted to do is not just capture Johnson the baseball player, but Johnson the man.

– Tom Arbour