Happy New Year! We have exciting news, and I’ll repeat much of what I had in a previous holiday post, just so you don’t miss it… New to Margy Gates Art – a beautiful line of note cards and greeting cards! Four beautiful Margy Gates images have been re-created into lovely greeting cards — 5 1/2“w x 4”h, packaged in sets of 8, tied with string, and polished off with a small shell which was hand-picked from the beaches of Mexico or the Caribbean. You can get 8 of the same image, or a mixed set that contains 2 cards of each image. Sets are available for $15.00 each, plus tax and shipping. (Note: If you are local to the Oxnard area and want to avoid shipping costs, drop us a note at margygatesart@gmail.com and we can arrange to get them to you.) The 4 images are: – The Californian at Anacapa Island – Kelp Dancers – Savu Savu Sunset – Passage of the Pilot Whales We also have
California coastlines
Exploring Southern California’s Beaches and Islands
Exploring Southern California’s Beaches and Islands – book, 120 pages, $18.95
Calm Harbor Santa Cruz Island
This portrait has a very exciting story behind it. Many came to the gallery in Channel Islands Harbor to hear me
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
Local Folk
The view out my studio window can get very interesting on a holiday weekend. I was intrigued with the shape
Incoming Tide
This painting is about movement and stability, hard and liquid, transparent and opaque. It also plays with putting the center
Another Island Painting
I am known for my island and reef paintings, hence the funny name. The rhythms are subtle, the waves break
Lazy Afternoon at Avalon
This is one of my commissioned Boat Portrait Paintings. The owner wanted me to paint the Casino at Catalina Island
Wave Games
Original watercolor Wave Games – 42″w x 20″h, $325 Wave Games – 32″w x 15″h, $185 Wave Games – 26″w
Kelp Forest
The slow swaying of the kelp create an ever-changing landscape for the many fish of the California kelp garden. Original
After the Storm
This sight awaited me when I came to my studio early one morning. Only very large storms create waves inside
Anacapa Arch II
On a spectacular day when the energy from the storm off New Zealand was making waves off the southern coast
Anacapa Arch V
This is the fifth in a series of paintings of the Anacapa Arch, which explore the various moods and views
Anacapa Arch
This was the first in a series of Anacapa Arch paintings. Anacapa is the first of four National Park islands
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