Destinations – Margy Gates Art

Exploring the Salish Sea

Exploring the Salish Sea – book, 96 pages, $15.95 Exploring the Salish Sea

Exploring Southern California’s Beaches and Islands – book, 120 pages, $18.95

This portrait has a very exciting story behind it. Many came to the gallery in Channel Islands Harbor to hear me

Commissioned for a surfer who surfed this beach for many years and wanted everything to be accurate about how he remembered

On a bus trip across central Fiji, a very fast sketch when the bus stopped, noting each mountain top had

This image, made after a rain in Channel Islands Harbor, won a First in peer judging for the Ventura County

This image was painted on-location on a cliff in Ojai and won a First Award in a membership show at

A few years ago when I was getting ready for a solo show at the Ventura County Maritime Museum, I

This is one of my commissioned Boat Portrait Paintings. The owner wanted me to paint the Casino at Catalina Island

This watercolor, painted on location en plein air, involved the usual outdoor strategies. First, one finds a shady place to

About the only thing moving in this lazy afternoon in Sequoia National Forest was the water skier making sharp turns

This is a close-up of a small beach on Isla Mujeres, Ycatan. It was a placid afternoon with a warm

This amazing place has cool trade-winds and warm rains that make thing grow at a spectacular rate. Legend has it

On a spectacular day when the energy from the storm off New Zealand was making waves off the southern coast

I was interested in the patterns the birds carve in the air, swooping up and around the rock face, then

This is the fifth in a series of paintings of the Anacapa Arch, which explore the various moods and views

This was the first in a series of Anacapa Arch paintings. Anacapa is the first of four National Park islands