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Celebrating Couples Exhibit features a pair of highly accomplished and successful Bay Area artist couples.

 

Huihan Liu is a renowned artist. Huihan is a Master Signature member of the Oil Painters of America and an artist member of the California Art Club. Huihan Liu was trained in the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Art in China in 1972 with a BA and MFA from the Academy of Art College of San Francisco in 1989. With more than twenty years of a professional career as an illustrator, teacher, and painter, he won the Best of Show award in the Oil Painters of America Regional Exhibition in 1996. Huihan Liu was featured in Art of the West magazine in May 1997, in The Artist’ Magazine in April 1999, and in Southwest Art in April 2000.

 

Weizhen Liang is a member of the Oil Painters of America. She earned a BA in the major of Chinese Literature from Ji Nan University of Guang Zhou in China. She showed an early interest in art and studied with her aunt, Zhong An-Zhi, a famous painter and professor in the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Art. In 1998, Weizhen began studying painting seriously from her husband Huihan Liu.

 

Ray Roberts is one of California’s most respected Plein Air artists. He recently won the Gold Medal for “Best Painting” at the California Art Club and the Artists’ Choice Award, the highest accolade from fellow artists, at three major southwest art events. He is best known for his seascapes, figurative work, and majestic views of California and the Southwest.

 

Peggi Kroll-Roberts is an award winning artist. She trained at Arizona State University and at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. Peggi worked as a fashion and advertising illustrator before making the transition into fine art. Using intense color and value to accentuate her subject, she moved into art with a bold palette, a love of small paintings and a very loose style that achieves a lot with a few very energetic brush strokes. She prefers to suggest reality rather than render it.