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"Brian Blood creates plein air works that excite our soul." - Informed Collector

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The Artist Says:

Artist's Statement

"My favorite subjects are scenes from Northern California. I have a connection with the sea, especially around the Monterey area and Point Lobos. I grew up around boats. When I was a boy, my father and I would build and fix boats during the New England winters. Now, I can't imagine a life without being able to paint. I am blessed with the confidence and guidance that creating art is what I will be doing for the rest of my life."

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Biography

Brian Blood

Brian Blood, a resident of Pebble Beach, California, is widely recognized as one of California's most important plein air impressionist artists. Married to award winning artist, Laurie Kersey, www.lauriekersey.com they live thier childhood dreams.

He began his professional life as a graphic artist and art director in Boston, Massachusetts. Although Blood's career was successful, he was frustrated personally and realized he wanted to be a fine-art painter. A leap across the continent to California took him to the Academy of Art Univercity in San Francisco for both undergraduate and graduate studies. In 2003, Blood and his artist wife, Laurie Kersey, were both teachers at the Academy of Art College.

From the 1990s, Brian Blood has been painting full time as well as conducting landscape painting classes at his alma mater. "I love the look on young people's faces when they begin to understand the thrill of painting outdoors," he says with great satisfaction. He also conducts ongoing workshops in his studio, and surrounding areas of Pebble Beach, California.

Primarily a plein-air painter, Blood creates hundreds of studies directly from nature, observing the ever changing light of day. He then takes his studies and supporting reference photos back to one of his two studios, either in San Francisco or Pacific Grove, to paint. He uses these studies as the basis for his larger scale works.

Blood has had his work featured in articles in Southwest Art Magazine (May 2002, and March 2005); Art of The West Magazine (March/April 2004); American Artist Magazine (January 2004); Plein Air Magazine (December 2005); and The Central Coast Journal (October 2005); to name a few.

Artist's Statement

"My favorite subjects are scenes from Northern California. I have a connection with the sea, especially around the Monterey area and Point Lobos. I grew up around boats. When I was a boy, my father and I would build and fix boats during the New England winters. Now, I can't imagine a life without being able to paint. I am blessed with the confidence and guidance that creating art is what I will be doing for the rest of my life."

Education


- Academy of Art College, San Francisco, B.A., M.A. (Fine Art)


Honors and Awards

- 2008 Carmel Art Festival "People's Choice" & "Artist's Choice" Award

Winner for his work entitled, "Perkin's Point".
- 2008 Carmel Art Festival "Best Local Artist" Award Winner
- 2007 Carmel Art Festival, "Best Local Artist" Award

- 2007 California Art Club Gold Medal Exhibition, Southwest Art Magazine "Award of Excellence"
- 2007 Maui Plein Air Invitational, "Irvine Museum Award of Excellence"
- 2006 "Quest for The West", Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis, Indiana,

"Founder's Award"
- 2006 "Plein Air Affair, 2006", Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz,

California, "Best of Show", and "People's Choice" Award winner
- 2005 Finalist in the Artist's Magazine 2005 Competition
- 2005 Oil Painters of America Western Regional, "Award of Excellence"

for his work entitled, "Hyde Street Cable Turn"
- 2005 "Northern Views" exhibit, Napa Valley Museum, "People's Choice"

Award for his work entitled "Asilomar Sunset"
- 2005 Carmel Art Festival, "Mayor's Choice" Award
- 2005 Salon International, San Antonio, Texas, Fine Art Studio Online

"Award of Excellence" and "Top 50 Award"
- 2005 Bennington Center for the Arts Small Works Show, Bennington,

Vermont, "Third Place" Award
- 2004 Honorable Mention Award, Pastel Journal Magazine
- 2004 San Luis Obispo Plein Air Festival, "Best of Show" Award
- 2004 Oil Painters of America National Exhibition, Jack Richeson "Award

Of Excellence" for his work entitled, "Asilomar Sunset"
- 2004 Carmel Art Festival, "People's Choice", and "Artist's Choice"

Awards for his work entitled, "Morning Iceplant"
- 2004 Winner of a "Merit Award of Excellence" in the landscape category

at the Salon International Exhibition, San Antonio, Texas.
- 2003 "Award of Excellence" winner, Annual Plein Air Painting Festival

Rocky Mountain Plein Air Painters, for his work, "Deer Mountain"

- 2002 "Honorable Mention" award winner, for his work entitled "The Old

Fremont", 1st Annual San Luis Obispo Plein Air Festival, San Luis Obispo,

California
- 2000 Carmel Art Festival, "Third Place" and "People's Choice" Awards

Selected Group Exhibitions


- 2009 California Art Club 98th Annual Gold Medal Exhibition, Pasadena

Museum of California Art, Pasadena, California

- 2009 Carmel Art Festival, Carmel, California
- 2009 Quest for the West Exhibition, Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis,

Indiana
- 2009 Salon International, Greenhouse Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
- 2008 Celebrate the Craft: Plein Air Invitational, The Lodge at Torrey

Pines, La Jolla, California
- 2008 Wine Country Plein Air Invitational, Fairmont Gallery, Sonoma,

California
- 2008 Crocker Art Museum Benefit Auction, Crocker Art Museum,

Sacramento, California
- 2008 Great American Landscape Exhibition, Waterhouse Gallery, Santa

Barbara, California
- 2008 Howard / Mandville 36th Annual Exhibition, Howard / Mandville

Gallery, Kirkland, Washington
- 2008 California Art Club Gold Medal Exhibition, Pasadena Museum of

California Art, Pasadena, California
- 2008 Brian Blood & Ted Goerschner: Two Man Show, Jones & Terwilliger

Gallery, Palm Desert, California
- 2008 Carmel Art Festival, Carmel-California
- 2008 "Quest For The West" Exhibition, Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis,

Indiana
- 2008 Academy of Art University Alumni Exhibition & Sale, San

Francisco, California
- 2007 "Quest For The West" Exhibition, Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis,

Indiana
- 2007 Torrey Pines Plein Air Invitational, Torrey Pines Lodge, La Jolla,

California
- 2007 Maui Plein Air Invitational, Maui, Hawaii
- 2007 California Art Club, 96th Annual Gold Medal Exhibition, Pasadena,

Museum of California Art, Pasadena, California
- 2007 Carmel Art Festival, Carmel, California
- 2006 "Quest For The West" Exhibition, Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis,

Indiana
- 2006 Salon International Exhibition, Greenhouse Gallery, San Antonio,

Texas
- 2006 California Art Club, 95th Annual Gold Medal Exhibition, Pasadena

Museum of California Art, Pasadena, California
- 2006 Carmel Art Festival, Carmel, California
- 2005 Monterey Open Studio Tour, Monterey, California
- 2005 4th Annual San Luis Obispo Plein Air Painting Festival, San Luis

Obispo Art Center, San Luis Obispo, California
- 2005 Telluride Plein Air Festival 2005, Telluride, Colorado
- 2005 Carmel Art Festival, Carmel, California
- 2005 "Northern Views: California Painting in the Plein Air Tradition", Napa

Valley Museum, Napa, California
- 2005 "Sonoma Plein Air" Festival, Sonoma Plein Air Foundation, Sonoma,

California
- 2005 "My California: Views From The Golden State", National Steinbeck

Center, Salinas, California
- 2005 Tucson Plein Air Painting Festival, Arizona Sonora Desert Museum,

Tucson, Arizona
- 2005 California Art Club. Spring Encounters Exhibition, Pasadena,

California
- 2004 California Art Club's 94th Gold Medal Exhibition, Pasadena Museum

Of California Art, Pasadena, California
- 2004 Oil Painters of America National Exhibition
- 2003 California Art Club, "H20. An Exhibition of Coastal Images",

Pasadena, California
- 2003 California Art Club, "Ode to the Southern California Eucalyptus"

Pasadena, California

- 2002 San Luis Obispo Plein Air Festival, San Luis Obispo, California
- 2001 Tenth Annual National Juried Exhibition of Traditional Oils, Oil

Painters of America, Palm Desert, California

- 2001 Carmel Art Festival, Carmel, California
- 2000 California Art Club 90th Annual Gold Medal Juried Exhibition,

Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, California

- 2000 Carmel Art Festival, Carmel-by-the-Sea, California
- 1999 Juried Exhibition, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego,

California

- 1999 Hudson Valley Art Association, 68th Annual Exhibition, Scarsdale,

New York
- 1998 Pastel Society of America, Annual Exhibition, New York, New York
- 1994-97 Yosemite Renaissance Exhibitions, Yosemite National Park,

California

- 1996-97 The Dynasty Art Group, Taipei, Taiwan

Selected Solo Exhibitions


- 2000 "Plein Air California" Bush St. Gallery, San Francisco, California
- 1999: "California Impressions," Academy Gallery, Academy of Art

College, San Francisco, California
- 1998: "The Heat Continues," ArtHaus, San Francisco, California

Collections


- Ritz Carlton Hotel, Half Moon Bay, California
- Pacific Bell Offices, San Francisco, California
- McKesson Corporation, San Francisco, California
- California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, California

Societies


- Artist Member, California Art Club
- Signature Member, Northern California Painters Group
- Signature Member, Rocky Mountain Plein Air Painters Association
- Member, The Conservancy Painters Group