Remaining works from Cheryl and Dennis Ekstrom’s portfolios will be available for sale Saturday, Feb. 20, at a pop up gallery, 3295 Laguna Canyon Rd. from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The collection represents a wide range of both artists’ interests and approaches over their lifetime.
Cheryl Ekstrom died last June. Her husband died in 2011.
She is well-known in Laguna Beach for several works of public art that include her most recent “Warriors United” sculptures, which guard a median on Broadway Street.
More information is available at: [email protected].
Learn Landscape Painting with an Expert
Noted artist Michael Obermeyer will lead a day-long landscape-painting workshop in Laguna Beach on Saturday, Feb. 27.
The 10 a.m.- 4 p.m. experience is for adult oil painters of all levels and costs $125. Obermeyer, a Festival of Arts exhibitor and member of the Laguna Plein Air Painters Association, will lead participants through planning the composition, mixing and laying paints and adding details.
The location and a supply list will be provided upon registration at LPAPA.org, LOCAarts.org or by calling (949) 376-3635.
Local Goldsmith Wins Award
Laguna local Troels Larsen won the respect of his peers, earning a recent American Gem Trade Association design industry award.
Larsen, a master goldsmith for 33 years, exhibits at the Festival of Arts. He received his second AGTA Spectrum Award in the evening wear category for a necklace set with tanzanites and diamonds in 18 karat yellow and white gold and platinum.
Troels one-of-a-kind works can be found at Jacobus Goldsmiths, 278 S. Coast Highway.
Airport Displays Luminous Oil Paintings
A selection of oil paintings from Laguna Beach resident Thom Surman are on display at John Wayne Airport through March 16. The paintings are on the upper departure level near security screening areas in Terminals A, B and C, and on the arrival level adjacent to baggage carousels 1 and 4.
As a lifetime painter and 56-year Orange County resident, Surman’s paintings record the interactions and constant fluctuation between the earth, sky and water. “Traditional oil painting has limitations,” Surman said in a statement. “Converting a flat reflective medium into a refractive light illusion is my ultimate challenge.”
