2016’s Official Old Spanish Days Poster Artist!
Today on the show we have plein air painter Jeremy Harper. Jeremy is a part of the Oak Group, Santa Barbara’s well known plein air arts group that was founded in 1985 by Ray Strong and Arturo Tello. And he’s going to be all over Santa Barbara this week because his painting is being used as the official 2016 poster of Old Spanish Days, aka Fiesta.
When his poster was unveiled back in May at a fundraiser I was covering, I got to meet Jeremy for the first time, and he’s a very cool, very unassuming guy and soon I was thinking I gotta get this guy on the show!
So after some back and forths, he invited me to his Montecito studio and we had this great chat which you’re about to hear.
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How cool to hear the interview with my cousin’s handsome son, Jeremy! It’s ironic that the topic is connected with my birth family (Ortega, the family of Jose Francisco de Ortega, who had a Spanish land grant from the King of Spain) as well as my adopted family (Bauer). Jeremy’s Mom, Letitia, was a Bauer) I didn’t know about my biological background until I was in my early fiftie’s. The day I left the Santa Barbara Museum from finding that connection I felt as though I was levitating about 18 inches off the ground. My shoulders were back, my chest was out, and I felt as though I was finally was learning who I am. (That’s a long story and I have been writing a memoir about my experience of finding my biological family.) Thanks for the nice interview with Jeremy. I have several of his paintings and think he is a very talented young man. (So is his brother, Blair, but his is a different style…more spiritual in some ways. Tisha is one very proud mother, with every right to be, with all the talent in her family of five.