Harbour Light at the Hour Before the Fishing Boats Come Home, With the Last Sun Caught on the Water and One Sail Still Out Past the Breakwater, Painted From the Old Pier Over Three Winters in Oil and

This painting began on the old pier in San Pedro, where I stood most evenings for three winters watching the light go from white to copper to a blue so deep it read as black. The harbour at that hour is the quietest place I know in Los Angeles: the cranes stop, the gulls settle, and for about twenty minutes the whole surface of the water turns into a sheet of hammered metal. I built the sky in thin glazes, eleven of them, letting each dry for a week so the colour sits inside the surface rather than on top of it. The sun is the only place the paint is thick; up close you can see the knife marks where I pushed it into the canvas. The sea is scumbled in dry passes of ultramarine and burnt umber, and the reflections were the last thing I painted, in one sitting, so they would stay loose. The single sail is a boat I saw almost every night and never learned the name of. It was always the last one in. I left it small on purpose; the painting is about waiting for it, not about the boat. Materials: oil and cold wax on stretched Belgian linen, with gold leaf in the sun and a final coat of Gamblin satin varnish for UV protection. The sides are painted, so it can hang unframed, but it ships in a hand-finished floating frame of white oak with a quarter-inch reveal. Hanging wire is attached and rated for three times the weight. Condition: new, signed on the front lower right and on the back with the title, the date and my studio stamp. A certificate of authenticity comes with it, signed and numbered, along with a short note about the pier and the three winters. Care: keep it out of direct sunlight and away from heating vents. Dust gently with a soft dry brush; never use water or cleaning products on the surface. If it ever needs more than that, write to me and I will tell you who to trust with it. Shipping: it travels in a custom wooden crate with corner protectors and foam on every face, fully insured, with a signature on delivery. I pack every crate myself. Please allow five business days for the crate to be built before it ships. Why this one matters to me: it is the first painting where I stopped trying to show everything I could see and painted only what I remembered. I hope it does for your room what that pier did for my evenings: gives you twenty quiet minutes at the end of the day. This painting began on the old pier in San Pedro, where I stood most evenings for three winters watching the light go from white to copper to a blue so deep it read as black. The harbour at that hour is the quietest place I know in Los Angeles: the cranes stop, the gulls settle, and for about twenty minutes the whole surface of the water turns into a sheet of hammered metal. I built the sky in thin glazes, eleven of them, letting each dry for a week so the colour sits inside the surface rather than on top of it. The sun is the only place the paint is thick; up close you can see the knife marks where I pushed it into the canvas. The sea is scumbled in dry passes of ultramarine and burnt umber, and the reflections were the last thing I painted, in one sitting, so they would stay loose. The single sail is a boat I saw almost every night and never learned the name of. It was always the last one in. I left it small on purpose; the painting is about waiting for it, not about the boat. Materials: oil and cold wax on stretched Belgian linen, with gold leaf in the sun and a final coat of Gamblin satin varnish for UV protection. The sides are painted, so it can hang unframed, but it ships in a hand-finished floating frame of white oak with a quarter-inch reveal. Hanging wire is attached and rated for three times the weight. Condition: new, signed on the front lower right and on the back with the title, the date and my studio stamp. A certificate of authenticity comes with it, signed and numbered, along with a short note about the pier and the three winters. Care: keep it out of direct sunlight and away from heating vents. Dust gently with a soft dry br