Across Eternity
Some places you visit dozens of times before you finally find the perfect moment.
I'd stood at the Kalalau Lookout more times than I can count. Somehow I'd never painted it. That changed on an evening I'd planned carefully — my mother was visiting, and after a long walk through the deep forest of Sugi Grove in Kokeʻe, we drove to the rim or Kalalau as the sun began to drop. I'd brought chairs, blankets, and hot tea so we could sit comfortably as the temperature fell and watch whatever the sky decided to do.
Sometimes the clouds roll over the rim and erase the view entirely. That night they didn't. The valley opened all the way to the horizon, and a line of clouds marching in from the distance caught the last light and held it — glowing peach against the deepening blue. Billowing clouds rolled in from the side of the composition, showing you their full plane at eye level, reminding you how high you are. Warm light fell across the cliffs and forest in the foreground. Far below, soft light in the valley floor gave the painting its particular feeling of depth and vastness — the sense that you are looking not just across distance, but across time.
Across Eternity captures the feeling of sitting still at the edge of something enormous, with someone you love, watching the light create magic with everything it touches.
The frame is handmade from Ipe and Padauk — two exceptional tropical hardwoods whose warm, deep tones mirror the sunset colors of the painting itself.
Medium: Oil and Acrylic Panel 30x24”
Frame: 40 x 34” · Ipe and Padauk
Price: $28,500