The California Coast is my home.

I first fell in love with California's coast through surfing and traveling up and down the state's coast looking for the perfect wave. Artwork came later, and for over 15 years I've been working toward painting the entire coastline of this beautiful state. It's a slow and winding road though... and sometimes it's no road at all.

I know I'll never be able to say I've painted every piece of this coast, but I can say that I've been more intentional about painting the entire coastline than any artist I've ever come across.

After years of slowly working toward my long term goal of painting the entire California coast, I've realized that it's going to take a lifetime, and even then I will never be truly "finished". But hey, even though there will always be more work to do, I have already painted a wide range locations in every coastal county of the state and at last I am going to release a large collection of my favorite pieces in this first volume of my life's work.

But it's more than just a book of art. Every plein air painting (painted on location in the outdoors) has a story to tell; fences hopped, encounters with friendly locals, battles with nature itself while attempting to paint out on the edge of a cliff in the wind and against all better judgement. These are the stories of real places. Sometimes simply poems. They can't always be told through art alone, and they certainly can't be conveyed in a gallery show (who reads anything in a gallery?).

To put it simply, this book is, without a doubt, the fullest expression of the artwork I've created over the last 15 years.

Enjoy the trip!