Spring Bloom, Point Lobos by Jesse Powell

Jesse Powell was born in 1977 in Los Angeles, California. He graduated from the University of Puget Sound with a Bachelors of Fine Arts Degree in painting and drawing, and went on to study in the Republic of Georgia under the tutelage of Russian and American

painters Nicholai Dubovik, Ilya Yatsenko, and John Wurdeman. His influences include many of today's living artists, such as Matt Smith and Clyde Aspevig,

along with many California and American

impressionists. Jesse’s work has received numerous

Museum, The Laguna Art Museum, The Pasadena

Museum of California History, The Pasadena Museum

of California Art, and The Santa Barbara Museum of

Natural History. Most recently, Jesse has become the

first living artist to have a work accepted into the

permanent collection of The Irvine Museum. He

currently resides with his wife in Carmel, California.