Brad Dugan is a native SoCal artist and musician exploring the depths and curiosity of the primitive circle. Entranced by the beauty of its simplicity, Brad tends to delve into the subconscious rhythms of stream of consciousness creation. A lot of his work is very free flowing using geometric shapes and vortices as his guide. The genesis of this concept is derived from meditation visuals he has experienced and the idea that our entire existence is fractal.

Chapman Hamborg grew up in Huntington Beach, California, practicing art at a young age. Much of his early inspiration flowed from his deep connection with nature and his love of the ocean.

Classically trained under Kim Frassett of Terra Arts Foundation, at the age of 16 he earned a scholarship for a summer course at Laguna College of Art and Design, which cultivated a desire to study realism. He moved to Florence, Italy, where he studied classic realist drawing and painting for 3 years at Angel Academy of Art, spending a year there teaching Artistic Anatomy.

Chapman enjoys working from life — drawing, sculpting, and painting landscapes, portraits, still life and figures. He travels often with his wife, painting landscapes and people along the way.

Chapman is adamant about working from life; his relationship with God and His creation is a primary source of inspiration. Rather than simply replicating what he sees, the experience with the environment and the model is integral to expressing the art. It is what makes the art alive.

Camille Collett grew up in Newport Beach, biking to the ocean to surf and snowboarding in the California mountains. These two things fostered her initial connection to the natural world. Her passion blossomed after majoring in Geology at UC Santa Barbara where she began hiking and camping in the California and Nevada wilderness.

Photography has been a way of artistic expression for Camille from an early age. It is a means of capturing the beauty and grandeur that nature holds for her and all of humanity. She photographs unique perspectives and moments which humble her and often go unnoticed. The photos on display are from the past year of adventures she took while road tripping, rock climbing and back packing around the western U.S., Nepal and beyond after finishing her Masters in Geology at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Elise Debes was born in Toronto, Canada and completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Laguna College of Art and Design. Her latest watercolor series entitled “Geometrics” are now featured in this exhibit. Debes has participated in the annual Sawdust Festival in Orange County and displayed work at the Laguna Gallery of Contemporary Art.

Deborah Harold is an award-winning artist who paints daily and what she translates is a loose, fresh, distinctive style that is her own. Using a keen sense of color enables her to capture the essence of impressionism and abstraction using oils. Her work is in juried shows, galleries, home interior shops, charity events and hangs in countless homes across the country and abroad. Painting is a life-long journey, and through years of studying art Deborah will continue to find her voice, further her abilities, and tell her story through her paintings. 

Seeking to venerate the essence of the human experience, Alrik Yuill explores his own identity and adaptive perceptions. Alrik sees art as participating in the creation of our realities. His art is a representation of his internal odyssey and spiritual journey through a material experience. His art is a meditative process that enables him to emote his psyche as well as present a symposium for reflection through sculpture, paintings, and other two-dimensional works.

His style is characterized by the conscious interaction between the raw and the defined, chaos and order, within the expanse of space. Abstract, inner personal, and existential concepts are explored in his figurative sculpture and painting. Many of his abstract paintings are inspired by the ocean, horizon, sky and sun. 

Sometimes life’s most simple pleasures make the strongest statement, like shopping at an outdoor market or sipping coffee at a street café. Wendy Johnson creates her artwork precisely this way. Simple subjects, shapes and colors to create the essence of the “joie de vie.” Time spent in Provence Tuscany has enabled her to readily transport the viewer to the lands of quaint villages with fragrances of lavender and flowering thyme in the air. In 1990, she opened an atelier and gallery, “The South of France,” in the burgeoning artist colony of Newport Beach, California. Wendy’s paintings are in private and corporate collections throughout the U.S. and Europe.

Wendy’s paintings will be on display at Alta April 1st – May 31st.