Daily Pilot | Andrew Turner
Photo: Artist Jason Li’s watercolor painting “Catching Sunset” won Best in Show in the 2025 Laguna Plein Air Painters Assn. Invitational. (Tom Lamb)
Artist Jason Li made history at the 27th LPAPA Invitational with Catching Sunset, the first watercolor to ever win “Best in Show.” The piece was later purchased by Newport Beach collector Mark Hilbert for the Hilbert Museum of California Art.
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