15×30″ oil on canvas panel– This is the far western end of Santa Cruz Island. The several food deep middens of abalone shell and other sea life show evidence of the thousands of years the Chumash called this home. It’s crazy to look at the stretch of sea out there and learn that following the last ice age Santa Cruz and Santa Rosa Island were connected as one big island called Santa Rosae. Mammoths swam out to Santa Rosae and like the foxes that live there now, shrunk in size and evolved into Pygmy Mammoths. Time, time, time– it is a beautiful ever-changing world out there…
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Plein air lanscape paintings from Santa Barbara and beyond…
Kevin Gleason Art 