Location: United States
Hovik Khodabakhshian was born in 1943. He is largely a self-taught artist, having received only an eight-month course of instructions from the Art Instruction School of Minneapolis in 1990. He completed his master’s degree in civil and structural engineering at Graz Technical University, Austria, in 1973. Hovik and his family have resided in Glendale, California since 1978.
He began painting in the 1990’s and exhibited in with the Eagle Rock and Verdugo Hills Art Associations.
After retirement in 2004 Hovik committed full-time to his painting; fuelled by his love of nature and the aesthetics of structural design.
His sources of artistic inspirations come from the natural landscapes and the renowned impressionists of the early 20th Century that captured the essence of this beauty.
His insight is drawn from such masters as Cézanne and Monet, in addition to the eminent plain-air painters of California such as Edgar Payne and Maurice Braun.
Hovik is especially talented at expressing the vibrant hues of dusk and dawn and in capturing the movement of water through a landscape and seascape.
Still life painting
“Antique Jug and Pomegranates”
Still life painting
Landscape in southern California
“Gathering under Golden sunset”
Seascape Pacific ocean
Still life painting
“Sunshine after December Rain”
Landscape painting
Still life painting
Landscape- Rolling Hills of Calufornia
“After heavy Rain, Tujunga Canyon”
Landscape painting- Tujunga Canyon- California
Still life painting
Landscape painting- Snake River-Mount Moran
Still life -floral painting
Country landscape- Bull Elk- Texas
Seascape- Coastline painting- California
Landscape- Seascape painting- Carmel in California
Seascape painting
Landscape painting
Seascape painting
Floral painting
Still life painting
Seascape-Landscape painting
Landscape painting
Landscape- Countryside -Central California
Still life painting
“In The Company of Aspens-Colorado”
Fall colors of Colorado Aspens
Sunset and Reflections
“Hiking Trails in Fern Canyon”
Landscape painting- Fern Canyon
Seascape-Maui Hawaii
“Glorious Morning -California Wine country ”
California landscape- Temecula valley- Wine country
Melting Snow in Sierra Mountains
The Basilica of San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo Mission-
Carmel-by-the-Sea