Chula Beauregard

Chula Beauregard (b. 1974) is a sixth-generation Coloradan. After graduating from Whitman College as an Art Major, cum laude, Chula went on to serve as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Gabon, Central Africa. Coming home to the Colorado mountains, she finds painting is her preferred way to engage in the Western landscape.

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Beauregard is a signature member of the American Impressionist Society (AIS), and American Women Artists (AWA). She has been honored with notable awards in each group, including the Artists' Choice Award at the National AIS Exhibit (2023). She won the President’s Award of Excellence with the Oil Painters of America (2022). She won 1st Place awards at the Steamboat Art Museum Plein Air Event (2015, 2016, 2019), and served as Faculty at the Plein Air Convention and Expo (PACE, 2023). She has been invited to several museum shows, including the Brinton Museum (Big Horn, WY), the Western Spirit Museum (Scottsdale, AZ), the Steamboat Art Museum (Steamboat Springs, CO), Bennington Art Center (Bennington, VT), Booth Western Art Museum (Cartersville, GA), and the Tucson Desert Art Museum (Tucson, AZ).

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Her work can be found in public and private collections. She is represented by the Simpson-Gallagher Gallery (Cody, WY) and the Broadmoor Galleries (Colorado Springs, CO).

 

Artist Statement:

“The Western experience is one of contradictions as we navigate between modern progress and pure wildness. Geographically rooted in the West, I intend to bridge the gap between traditional and contemporary. Using the classical approach, I apply the tools that have been tried and tested through the centuries: patterns of light and dark, color theories, and techniques to create illusions of space. However, I find the modern approach lends the freedom I need to express the intuitive sense of place: color fields, expressive mark layering, and textures that unite the painted surface. I honor the infinite Beauty of this land, while striving to contribute a relevant voice in these modern times.”

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“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.” John Muir