Featured Artists
2025 Featured Artists
The 2025 Featured Artists for Mission Fed ArtWalk represent diverse backgrounds, art styles and mediums. We are proud of the high caliber of art that represents some of the most captivating work at the show. Visit the artists’ websites to learn more about their work and their inspiration.
Peter Campbell
Mixed Media, Sculpture
Now based in Temecula, but originally from Palm Springs, Peter Campbell uses many forms of media such as wood, glass, and polymer clay. Mixed media allows him to use many different materials to help bring to life what he envisions in his head, creating endearing pieces full of color and texture. Peter wants collectors to feel like they have a piece of art that is everlasting…that will bring them joy for the rest of their life.
Benito Del Aguila
Collage & Silkscreen
A resident of San Ysidro, Del Aguila’s style is classified as Mexican Pop Art, with a primary focus on iconographic elements of popular culture. He’s been participating in ArtWalk shows for the last 14 years, and believes his biggest inspiration is his Mexican roots. His work merges bold colors, cultural icons, and contemporary narratives to celebrate and critique Mexican identity. Drawing inspiration from artists such as Andy Warhol, Mark Bradford, and Jose Guadalupe Posada, he uses silkscreen and collage techniques to reinterpret historical and modern figures through a vibrant, layered aesthetic.
Joshua Dopp
Glass & metal
Dopp hails from Clarkdale, Arizona, where he draws inspiration from natural architecture. He studied art history, then developed his technique through schooling, apprenticeships, and later, a dedicated art practice. He hopes collectors take a “sense of ‘ah’ and wonder,” from his work, along with “enjoyment, mostly in beauty.”
Kate Joiner
Acrylic
Joiner, a resident of Carlsbad, was selected as this year’s “postcard” artist. Her Contemporary California style uses instinctive, loose brushwork and a vibrant color palette. The native California’s biggest inspiration comes from her hometown of San Diego, a city that has been a part of her life for more than 50 years. She is constantly inspired by the rich layers of history, culture, and natural beauty that make this place so special. As a painter and multimedia artist, she often explores how the human persona connects with the California landscape.
LaMonte Lamoureux
Acrylic
A resident of San Diego, Lamoureux’s art style blends coastal-inspired impressionism with a serene and modern aesthetic, capturing the fluidity of ocean waves, surfer culture, and natural landscapes through soothing color palettes and dynamic compositions. A unique aspect of Lamoureux’s work is the use of floating frames, which he builds, adding a handcrafted element to his pieces. This enhances the immersive quality of his work, making it feel like an extension of the natural world.
Tim Novara
Mixed Media, Acrylic
A San Diego local, Novara’s style draws heavily from his background in architecture and is characterized by precise lines, intentional geometry, and dynamic compositions. This builds a foundation that is enhanced with bright, thin, transparent layers of color that play with light and create a sense of movement. Drawing inspiration from the rhythms of electronic music to the energy and complexity of cities, Novara says, “cities captivate me as messy combinations of people, buildings, systems, colors, sounds, and noise. I’m especially drawn to the built environment: buildings and structures that range from ornamental to purely utilitarian.”
Eri Sugimoto
CEramics
Currently based in Trabuco Canyon, CA, Sugimoto is a ceramic artist, born in Tokyo and raised in Yokohama, Japan. As shared in her artist statement, her work reflects a fusion of the techniques that she learned in the United States and her own cultural background. The asymmetry and dynamic composition in her work may have been influenced by her experience studying Japanese Middle Age art on folding screens, ink paintings, sliding screen paintings, and illustrated scrolls during her early days as an art history student.
Maryam Rouhi
Mixed Media, Oil
From Laguna Beach, Rouhi’s abstract style is inspired by people and nature. Influenced by Monet and Klimt, she is currently experimenting with layering the application of metallic leaf and finding ways to harmonize these elements with her compositions. Rouhi has been creating fine artworks for more than 20 years, after starting her career in commercial art, as a graphic artist. She mainly works with oil media but also enjoys creating mixed media with gold leaf. Her brush strokes and textures create an unforgettable experience for the viewer. Each brushstroke builds up a story and has life and passion.