Patent: Hull Design

18x24

acrylic on panel, mounted printed patent on high quality acrylic panel

What you’re looking at is not just surf art—it’s surf history, reframed as contemporary luxury. A mid-century U.S. surfboard patent, rendered in crisp white schematic linework, floats over a richly layered coastal atmosphere. The background feels like late afternoon at Malibu or San Onofre—warm ochres, deep marine blues, and a soft Pacific haze—while the patent drawings bring precision, lineage, and quiet authority.

This work speaks to California’s obsession with design and innovation. Engineers see intelligence. Surfers see heritage. Collectors see restraint and confidence. It bridges function and culture in the most effortless way—exactly how great California art should.

In an LA home, this belongs in a Venice modern, a Brentwood office, or a Malibu living room where the ocean isn’t décor, it’s identity. It doesn’t shout. It knows. The glass, the framing, and the balance between technical draftsmanship and painterly depth elevate it into that rare category where art, history, and lifestyle overlap seamlessly.

This isn’t nostalgia.

It’s provenance, polished.

A piece for someone who understands that real California style is effortless—and earned.