Jeff Horn

“I prefer to paint directly from nature and I love being outdoors where I can see, hear, smell and feel the scene around me. For me, the painting is a translation of nature and my experience of it. If I am successful, I take the viewer with me to feel the moment.

I believe good painting is not a slavish copy of visual details, but an emotional response to a moment in nature.”

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1988-2007 Professor Emeritus of Drawing and Painting, Irvine Valley College

RECENT EXHIBITIONS AND AWARDS
2019 – “Independent Publishers Book Awards- IPPY” Gold Medal – Best Art Book 2019 – “IN OUR EYES, IN OUR WORDS”
2017 – “Big Canyon Invitational” Best in Show
2015 – “Sunlight and Shadow” The Tradition of Plein Air Painting, Irvine Museum
2014 – “Then and Now” 100 years of Plein Air painting, Irvine Museum
2012 – California Art Club “Saving Paradise”, Bennington Center for the Arts, Bennington, Vermont
2012 – California Art Club Gold Medal Exhibition, Autry Museum, Los Angeles Plein Air Magizine Award”Excellence in Painting”