The Redfern Gallery invites you to a one-man show  and artist reception on Saturday, March 29th at 4 p. m. Cosby's extraordinary recent paintings will fill the walls of the newly redecorated Redfern Gallery located at 1540 South Coast Highway, Laguna Beach, California. John Cosby is the first new artist to be represented by The Redfern Gallery in fifteen years and we are thrilled to present his paintings along with the gallery’s "new look".  

"Cosby conveys not only how a scene looks but also how it feels." as stated in the March issue of Southwest Art Magazine, where John Cosby is a featured artist.  According to the author, Virginia Campbell, "The endlessly shifting California light that has animated the canvases of California's plein-air painters for a century takes on a particularly welcoming quality in Cosby's pictures.  They have an intangible human touch that comes partly from fast, lovely brush strokes that don't show off, and partly from the ephemeral moments they capture.  It's the work of an optimistic realist."

A Symphony of Color will showcase over thirty paintings of Laguna Beach, Catalina Island and the countryside of California's central coast.  A full color brochure is available. 

 

“Grand Canyon South” is a rare painting by the famous artist Edgar Payne. In the thirty one years that the Redfern Gallery has been representing Payne’s work, there have been few paintings of the Grand Canyon and of those “Grand Canyon South” is his best.  This painting was used as a cover for Payne’s book “Composition of Outdoor Painting”.

Payne first went west in 1917 when the Santa Fe railroad offered him passage in exchange for some of the paintings he produced on the trip.  They were to be used as advertising for the railroad to entice travel to the Western states.  Payne loved the Southwest and returned there throughout his career.