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BoldBrush Recommends: Fernando Micheli
Biography
Fernando Micheli is a long time resident of Laguna Beach, California and a member of LPAPA Laguna Plein Air Painter’s Association. He was born in Fiano, near Lucca, Italy and immigrated to the United States with family in 1955. After High School in Watsonville, California, he decided to pursue schooling in Pinerolo (Piedmont), Pietrasanta, Florence and Lucca (Tuscany) for two years, which not only improved his fluency in Italian, but allowed him the time to travel and attain the proficiency needed to apply to the University of Florence in Art and Architecture. After much thought, he eventually longed to return to San Francisco and family and pursue a design oriented profession graduating from the University of California at Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design in Landscape Architecture. After graduating with a BA in Environmental Design, he began a successful career as a Landscape Architect in Costa Mesa and Laguna Beach, which lasted over 36 years.
Desiring a change and anticipating his retirement, he decided to try oil painting in 2013 on a whin. It was a life changing decision; one that he believes brought him back to his longing to be an artist. What attracts Fernando to painting is the immediacy of Plein Air painting. “One not only needs to capture the feeling of the subject, but also the essence of light and color as it bounces, reflects and scatters on the physical world. Painting is truly seeing more intensely than you can possibly hope to see. Painting is a life-long pursuit, one that requires always honing and learning new skills in order to build a vocabulary that just doesn’t reproduce reality, but can capture the emotional essence of nature. I focus on the immediacy of Plein Air painting and Representational art, capturing the beauty of Southern California as well as traveling to destinations nationally and abroad. I love painting Plein Air painting and consider it an extremely enriching and rewarding vocation and a second career that enriches my life.
I am a regular exhibitor at the Laguna Beach Sawdust Festival and maintain a Gallery/Studio in Laguna Beach, California.
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