
By Tom Fitt
Southern Californians take a lot for granted: the weather, the beach, wonderful restaurants that offer fresh and healthy cuisine of all sorts, the friendliness of a citizenry that comfortably wear jeans and running shoes, a laissez faire attitude that even the traffic on PCH cannot undermine.
Opening and signature hour on October 11, 2006 4 PM. Every guest with invitation will get a free copy of the new catalogue.

Palos Verdes Peninsula Artists features twenty-two prominent local artists:Donna Anderson, Lois Barnes, Elma Beck, Don Crocker, Phyllis Ferrara, Laura Hines-Jurgens, Cinthia Joyce, Gloria D. Lee, Frank Minuto, Margaret Mohr, Lois Olson, Dael Patton, Aapo Pukk, Lynnie Sterba, Kathryn Stinis, Richard Stephens, Ruby Wang, Carol Morris-Ward, Joyce Weiss, Karen Wickham, Patricia Woolley, and Jean Zaske. The book is filled with stunning reproductions of the artists' work and a wide variety of styles are represented including abstract, plein air, portraiture, and realism.
Portrait painting of the former assembly member George Nakano was presented to the City of Torrance, CA on the occasion of the naming of the George Nakano Theatre on June 21, 2005. Photos by Lili Miura.
Matti Milius with His Legs Crossed. 2004 Oil on canvas, 38 x 29".
The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition in London Mall Gallery, United Kingdom. Competition exhibition. Painting "Natalie in Cigar-House" was chosen from more than 800 paintings.

"Arter"/Postimees newspaper February 21, 2004.
Presentation and signing of the paintings of His Holiness Alexy II, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia in Russian Federation Embassy Gallery in Tallinn on February 18, 2004.
September 18, 2003.
Unveiling the Portrait Painting of Bishop Kuno Pajula in Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church.
News for Members of the Portrait Society of America© 2009 Aapo Pukk. Reproduction and usage of images in print and as a part of website template by written permission only. Phone 310-750-6098.