JOHN O’BRIEN a native of Los Angeles and avid surfer, paints waves and photographs surf culture to inspire wonder and aloha. He uses traditional techniques in an electronic way to create ethereal one-of-a-kind digital paintings.

His work has been shown in Klapper Gallery, the Classic Surf Gallery, and the California Heritage Museum, among other venues, and he is the founder of surferdreams.com.

“John O’Brien’s original images of the crucial part of surfing, the waves, bring a fresh perspective to the surf art genre,” wrote surf historian, surf art collector, and Classic Surf Gallery owner Allan Seymour in 2006.

His career as an artist and graphic designer also includes much time at The New Yorker, Architectural Digest, Warner Bros., and Disney. He holds a BA in English from the University of California at Berkeley and a BA in philosophy from Mount St. Mary’s University in Maryland.

He has trained as a watercolorist at New York University, an illustrator at the School of Visual Arts, a photographer at Santa Monica College, and a graphic designer at UCLA.

MYRA VIDES is a California native born in Central America, a mother, an environmentalist, activist, child/family portrait photographer and Creative Director of Photography for the Bavubuka Foundation in Uganda.

Myra established her career in Pacific Palisades, California in 1997, however she has spent over two decades behind a camera lens. Her photographic style reflects the lifestyle of her childhood, running free in nature with a true sense of a kindred spirit!

Myra has also worked as an art teacher, creating curriculums for children as young as two years old.

In Fall 2008 Myra will be teaching photography to youth at the Getty Villa in Malibu with The Virginia Avenue Project.

You can contact Myra by email