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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
His Majesty, Norodom Sihimoni, King of Cambodia
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
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