“Ehukai”
Patience and Persistence Rewarded..
Ehukai — Hawaiian for sea spray, or sea mist — was born from a moment of extraordinary ocean energy. A swell of thirty to forty feet, the kind that transforms the Na Pali Coast into something almost mythological. As the waves detonated against the cliffs, the setting sun caught the spray and held it — illuminating the mist from within, turning raw power into something that glowed.
That quality is what the painting chases: the way immense force can produce something unexpectedly delicate. Ehukai has a compressed palette that gives it a particular mood — contained, intentional — and yet within that restraint lives an enormous amount of detail. The waves were painted with tiny brushes over the course of a year, four hundred hours of work to capture the intricacy of moving water, the subtle nuances of the cliffs, the dynamic mist that seems to shift as you look at it. Ehukai has serenity and power at once.
The frame is handmade from Quilted Maple and Koa — the Maple carefully chosen from a personal reserve of exceptional wood, saved for a piece worthy of it. The multi-coat hand-rubbed oil finish brings out the chatoyance of the grain — that depth and shimmer that makes the wood seem to move in changing light. Like the painting, it rewards a long look.
Medium: Oil and Acrylic on Canvas 40 x 30”
Frame: 49 x 39” · Quilted Maple and Koa
Price: $42,000