Pacific Edge, San Francisco Coast

Acrylic on gesso board, 5 x 7 inch, 2025

This painting captures the rugged Pacific shoreline just north of San Francisco with a vivid, impressionistic palette. Rolling green hills plunge toward turquoise waters, their edges alive with orange and crimson wildflowers reminiscent of California poppies. The brushwork, loose yet deliberate, echoes the plein-air tradition while embracing a modern Fauvist intensity. Waves curl around scattered rocks, and the sky stretches in layered blues, evoking the meeting of land, sea, and air as a timeless, living icon of the California coast.