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Kris deYoung - San Diego Artist

Welcome to artist Kris deYoung's online art gallery. Known at the Painter of Native Plants, Kris has been traveling the world photographing native floral, which eventually become transformed into one of her beautiful oil or watercolor paintings. The oil painting to the left is a closeup image of the bloom of the Mojave Agave plant. This one was in glorious bloom at the Torrey Pines State Preserve and captured with a Sony digital camera. The original oil painting is 30"x30"x2" and was selected as best in show at Gallery 21 in Spanish Village in 2009 and as one of SWAA's Top 100 in 2010.

Current Events:

2010 June 6 - July 5: Exhibit at La Jolla Art Association Gallery, Featuring oils of orange, yellow, and red plant images + selected sunset oil images. 8100 Paseo del Ocaso, La Jolla, CA 92037. 858-459-1196 www.lajollaart.org Featuring recent work of the artist.

2010 through July 4: San Diego County Fair: Mohave Agave, pictured at the top of this page.

2010, July 5 - 18: La Jolla Art Association Gallery, "Night of the Iguana." Banana Flower and Tropicana

2010, August 21 & 22: San Diego Botanical Gardens, Selected Native Plant Series paintings.

2010, October 11-17: La Jolla Art Association Gallery, "Kris deYoung on Close Inspection: A solo retrospective of work since 1972"

There are many beautiful images of native plants, flowers and other scenes found around the world, but mostly in southern California. Feel free to browse through these pages and enjoy the paintings, drawings, photography, and giclee' reproductions. Contact the artist at kdy@san.rr.com to get more information about which images are available as giclee reproductions on high grade canvas or 200# cotton rag watercolor paper.

In her "Native Plants Series" Kris presents the juxtaposition of abstract and representational artistic styles, while informing about the intrusion of man, represented by hard-edge elements, into the botanical habitat of our planet's beautiful native plant communities. She is currently working toward 100 native plant portraits, but has painted many other venues and does a separate series of sunrise/sunset landscapes. The image below shows Kris next to "Blooming Lemonade Berry" #38 in her Native Plant Series. She has begun work on #47 in her series of native plants, which will be a Southern Califorina native.