Nathan Paul Gibbs | Mission Viejo, California USA

Surf artist Nathan Paul Gibbs was born in Washington State on the Kitsap Peninsula, and raised from 13 on in North East Florida where he picked up surfing. Since 1999 he lives and works on his art career in South Orange County and abroad. Nathan has created surf art work internationally in Fiji, Bora Bora, Moorea, Costa Rica, Mexico, Hawaii and Australia. Self taught, he is influenced by Pollock, Van Gough, Cezanne, and others. His work has exhibited in Florida, Washington, Hawaii, South America and the Southern California Area.

Surf Art, Defines his Art

My art revolves around, transcends and invokes a sense of wonder within an ocean-nurtured lifestyle. Through the exploration of water landscapes, peoples faces and rural images, I free the boundaries of their realistic attributes. I open the dream-like qualities of moments revisited, thoughts recognized, and landscapes explored. There are many ways that I portray a subject, muted themes, political sarcasm, and disguised messages, developed through the application of painting, chemical, and textual techniques. 

Much of my work reveals the relationships between energy, water, life and emotion. I take my paintings to a deep level that invokes participation from the viewer with a visual, emotional, and cognitive experience.

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