waves – 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

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

We looked forward to the first day of the new millennium for a long time, and when it came, it

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

I am known for my island and reef paintings, hence the funny name. The rhythms are subtle, the waves break

Original watercolor Wave Games – 42″w x 20″h, $325 Wave Games – 32″w x 15″h, $185 Wave Games – 26″w

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

This sight awaited me when I came to my studio early one morning. Only very large storms create waves inside

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