Map Art
This was an interesting commission project for me. A client had two homes, one in California and the other in Florida. He hung the California map painting in his Florida home and the Florida map painting in his California home. Each color pattern and divides in the state map paintings represent the state’s counties. I originally started putting the names of each county on the map but the image became very busy – so I painted them out. I like the abstract quality of the way the maps came out
Being a west coast guy I did not know that there was a Highway 1 that ran along the east coast. I do know that Highway One route along the west coast is one of the prettiest drives you could ever want to take – particularly as you get above San Francisco. The highway is over 1650 miles from the Mexican to the Canadian boarder and I have driven it a couple of times. The route extends from the beautiful beaches of Southern California to the lush, green forests into Washington. And in-between is the astoundingly beautiful country of coastal shorelines and redwood forests.