JOHN D. REPKA

MEDIUM

Painting

ARTIST STATEMENT

“I’m using impressionist and American realist idioms to depict my vision of life in Laguna Beach and Southern California in the early 21st century.”

ARTIST BIO

Raised in Paramount and La Mirada, California following a 1962 birth, the proud son of a postal worker and a nurse studied at Cal-State Fullerton, majoring in art, emphasis on illustration as well as painting.

After college, John moved to San Francisco, and found an artists community, showing his work on any wall that would accommodate his emerging vision. Family called in 1990, and he returned to Southern California and entered the commercial art world, continuing to work until 2008. Since that time, making art in his adopted hometown of Laguna Beach has fully occupied his time. He is in his 4th year showing at the Festival of Arts.