Saim Caglayan Saim Caglayan was born in Istanbul, Turkey and came to the United States in 1968 to study Architecture. After three years his interest changed and he went on to complete his BA degree in Sculpture from California State University, Long Beach. He then took further graduate courses in art from California State University, Fullerton and the Art Institute of Southern California. For over twenty years he taught sculpture for Crafton Hills College and Golden West College and recently plein air painting at Irvine Valley College, and private painting classes in California and Kaua’i. In 2002, Saim and his wife Heidi moved from their long time residence in Laguna Beach to their beloved island of Kaua’i. Saim has been plein air painting the landscapes of the California desert, coastline and Islands of Hawaii for many years now. His goal as a painter is to capture the ever-transient light and its colors within a composition of balance and harmony, whether of wilderness, which we are desperately in need of preserving, or of our human interactions and habitats, which we are required by a higher value to nurture. In the summer of 1996 he envisioned and founded LPAPA, Laguna Plein Air Painters Association. His goal was to revive the tradition of the early California plein air painters who had lived and painted in Laguna. Today LPAPA has become a vibrant force in the art community of Laguna Beach and throughout the United States with a membership of over 400 plein air painters. In 2003 with Pierre Bouret he started KOPA, Kaua’i Outdoor Painters Association and in 2005 with Ronaldo Macedo ISLANDERS, group of Plein Air painters representing the Hawaiian Islands. MUSEUM AND ART EXHIBITIONS Laguna Art Museum California Open Laguna Art Museum LPAPA invitational San Bernardino County Art Museum California Orange County Museum of Art Festival of Arts, Laguna Beach La Quinta Arts Festival La Quinta Arts Foundation Desert Air Curator, San Bernardino County Art Museum, Women Sculptors of Southern CA Exhibit Juror, Festival of Arts, Laguna Beach Juror, San Bernardino County Art Museum Juror, Golden West College Exhibit Juror, Seal Beach Art Association Juror, San Clemente Art Association PUBLIC SCULPTURE & PAINTING COMMISSIONS AND COLLECTIONS Shell Oil Company, LaJolla, CA Aitoku, Konan, Japan Crafton Hills College Learning Center, CA Festival of Arts Office, Laguna Beach, CA La Farge Plaza Fountain, Redlands, CA St. Joseph’s Hospital of Orange, CA Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital, CA Sub 4 Main Office, Carlsbad, CA Memorial to the Sisters of St. Joseph, CA Toastmasters International, Joseph P. Rinnert Memorial, Anitkabir Mausoleum of Ataturk, Turkey Mr.& Mrs.Pierce Brosnan Mr.& Mrs. Charlton Heston Mrs.Nancy Sinatra Mrs. Joan Irvine Smith Mr.Tommy Tune U.S. Embassy, Vientiane, Lao U.S. Embassy, Muscat, Oman U.S. Embassy, Bridgetown, Barbados