Current Exhibitions
The Studio, unveiled at Casa Romantica Cultural Center and Gardens in January 2025, is a new space within the property that allows artists to work onsite, talk to the public, and sell their work during an Artist-in-Residency.
Rick J. Delanty’s landscapes are known for their expressiveness, positive color palette, and energy. Visitors will see landscapes of the artist’s beloved San Clemente, where he has lived, worked and painted for the past fifty years. The flag he designed for the City flies today over its civic buildings, and his logos for the high school and Ocean Festival are still significant elements of those organizations. He is a Signature member of six national arts societies, represented by four galleries, and is the honored recipient of national and international awards. Artist/author Christopher Volpe commends Delanty as “one of the most recognized and accomplished oil/acrylic painters working in southern California.”
During the next six months, Delanty welcomes visitors to come view his work at the just-unveiled Studio, located in the main salon and to chat with him whenever they see him painting on the Casa grounds. All paintings on view in The Studio are available for purchase and can be taken home the same day.
The Studio is underwritten by Mark and Bonnie Larsen
Rick J. Delanty is a native Californian who explores the Western landscape in colorful and expressive oil and acrylic landscape paintings. His work is notable for its expressionistic movement, emotional use of color, and variety of textures and brushstrokes. Rick is a national and international award-winning artist in plein air competitions and exhibitions, including the California Art Club’s Gold Medal show, the Laguna Plein Air Invitational, the Plein Air Salon, and the Art Renewal Center Salon Competition.
He has practiced his craft professionally for fifty years, painting from Big Sur to Niagara Falls, and teaching and demonstrating in a variety of venues. His work is in the permanent collection of two prominent museums, with twenty-seven paintings in one of the largest private collections of California art in the nation. Feature articles concerning his work have appeared in many national publications, the latest entitled “Inspired by Creation” (Modern Impressionist magazine, Nov./Dec. 2024), as well as a book he authored during COVID titled “Beauty Unites Us.”
Rick is a Signature artist with several professional organizations, such as ASMA, NOAPS, LPAPA, and AIS. He is an Artist member of the California Art Club and Oil Painters of America, among others. The Art Renewal Center has recently selected Rick for the designation of Associate Living Master. The artist has served as awards judge for several national organizations, as well as an instructor, demonstrator, moderator and speaker. Rick is represented by four galleries, three in California’s Central Coast and one in northwestern Montana.
