seashores – Margy Gates Art

Olden Times

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

This painting is about movement and stability, hard and liquid, transparent and opaque. It also plays with putting the center

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

Safely tethered, but moving slightly with the surge (just enough to challenge all the curves and drive an artist crazy)

This is the first in a planned series of lighthouse images. I like the way the forms stacked one on

I had some shells from Fiji on the windowsill facing the rising sun. I came back into the room early

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