Jon Francis

Jon was born and raised in Laguna Beach, an early California art colony of Plein Air Painters.  While still in high school, he won awards for his art in the Orange County Fair.  He then went on to earn his Bachelor of Professional Arts at The Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles where he studied painting with Lorser Feitlelson, Harry Carmean and Bernice Polifka.  Jon has exhibited at the Bolinas Museum, Napa Valley Museum, San Luis Obispo Plein Air Painting Festival,  Sonoma Plein Air Foundation,  Marinscapes, Marin Agricultural Land Trust,  Scottsdale Artists’ School, Laguna Plein Air Invitational, Carmel Art Festival, and the California Art Club.  He is represented by Sullivan Goss Gallery in Santa Barbara, Claudia Chapline Gallery in Stinson Beach and George Krevsky Gallery in San Francisco