The Mary Hardesty Realty Annual Balboa Island Calendar

Mary & Erika launched the yearly Balboa Island Calendar in 2003 to celebrate the holiday season & the beginning of a new year on Balboa Island. It is hand delivered as a gift to each Island resident during the holiday season. John Carlyle, local fine artist, is commissioned each year to paint an impressionist watercolor showcasing well-loved Balboa Island scenes. It is our pleasure to share this seasonal tradition with the community.


 

John Carlyle - Fine Artist
714.225.7807

 

San Diego State University – BA Graphic Design/Illustration 1982

Working Artist in Southern California for the past 42 years

Watercolorist by trade, also works in Oils

Style is an integration of impressionism & representational realism

His Work is both original in Content & Style

Inspired by: John Singer Sargent, Gustav Kilmt, & Wayne Thiebud

Accepted in both the Costa Mesa & Newport Beach Art Exhibitions & in the “Art That’s Small” Exhibition in Laguna Beach 

Two of his Art Banners have been selected in The Annual Laguna Beach Art Banner Competition 2016/2020

John paints to capture the positive & alluring coastal vibe  that the Southern California beach area provides. 

The Ocean, Sand, and a 1963 VW Bus are his personal Muses.