PART OF THE BIRTHDAY COLLECTION · A 2016–2026 RETROSPECTIVE
 
This original painting is part of The Birthday Collection, a 10-day retrospective bringing together 23 paintings created across a decade of my artistic practice.
 
I’ve always seen my paintings as fragments of me. Each one holds evidence of a particular season, what I was exploring, questioning, noticing, and becoming at the time.
 
For my birthday, I’m bringing these works together and offering them at special pricing. Their price is changing. Their value isn’t. I’m simply ready for these paintings to leave my studio, find loving places to belong, and create space for my next season.
 
Special Birthday pricing is available through August 29, 2026.
 
And because every painting deserves its birthday, each original collected during The Birthday Collection also includes three months of my new Snail Mail Experiment as my gift to you.
 
Studio Notes
 
From the Top was one of my first large-scale paintings of the Hermosa Beach Pier.
 
At the time, my paintings looking out from underneath the pier had become some of my most successful and recognizable works. So I became curious: what would happen if I changed the perspective?
Instead of looking through the pier toward the horizon, I moved above it.
 
Created in 2016, From the Top captures the familiar Manhattan Beach Pier from a completely different point of view, while already carrying many of the elements that would continue to appear throughout my work, the ocean, the horizon, bold color, texture, and my fascination with how changing our perspective can completely change what we see.
 
ARTWORK DETAILS
 
Acrylic on canvas
48 × 48 × 1.5 inches
Ready to hang
Signed front & back
Certificate of authenticity included
Ships from Hermosa Beach, California (or studio pick up)
 
Drica Lobo’s paintings live in private collections across the United States, Asia, Europe, and Brazil.