Community Center Mural

Dana Point Community Center located at 34052 Del Obispo Street (Back of the building).

This bold, bright and playful design takes its cues from quintessential delights of Dana Point living. From ocean adventures and beachside treasures to culinary treats and palm-lines streets, it celebrates the outdoor-loving lifestyle that the City’s rich community life revolves around.

Lovisa Kjerrgren Artist Statement​

Art is a verse I add to the poem of the landscape, always in a pairing of nature’s sublime refinement and curiosity’s inspired hand.

Artist Bio

There’s a poetry inherent in the landscapes around us. We can feel its verse in the wind — see it in the changing light and in the textures that shift along the hillside. In Lovisa’s creative practice, she paraphrases it in a language of form, color and texture. Landscape poetry is both the inspiration and the ambition of her art.

From the quiet lakes and deep forests of Lovisa’s native Sweden to the foamy shores and prickly deserts of Southern California she calls home since 2015, the intricacy of nature is an endless source of awe and inspiration. Through her education and practice, Lovisa engages with it in cross-pollinating capacities that straddle the worlds of art and design. As a Landscape Architect, she has ten years of experience designing environments that support both ecological systems and human use. As an Artist, she explores the visual complexity of different landscape types and depict it in expressions that range from naturalistic representations to graphic illustrations and playful abstractions.

Much of Lovisa’s inspiration is gathered running and hiking through the coastal hills and inland deserts of Southern California. Attuned to subtleties of seasonal and atmospheric conditions that define the experience of a place at any given moment, her work celebrates the ephemeral – equally fascinated by things that grow and things that disintegrate around us. Whether capturing a vista or cropping a view down to its smallest details, Lovisa strives to find unexpected vantage points from which to draw out the spectacular that resides within ordinary and often overlooked elements of our surroundings.

For her third year with the Sawdust, Lovisa is proud to have designed the large wall mural along the entry to the festival grounds. She has created several seasonal public artworks for the City of Laguna Beach in the last few years as well, and is happy to take on commissions and mural projects alongside her studio practice.