People – Margy Gates Art

Summer at Leo Carrillo

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

The history of Port Hueneme Pier is old, as California history goes. The schooners that plied the coast picking up

Being a beach artist, I have done many wave paintings. This is the first one designed to feature a surfer.

The view out my studio window can get very interesting on a holiday weekend. I was intrigued with the shape

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

Tropical places have repeating themes — The soft foliage of banana trees, palms leaning into the tradewinds, people in bright