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
Splash was my first attempt to paint something I have always loved: rain.
I grew up in tropical Brazil, where rain was part of life, and before making Hermosa Beach my home, I lived in Seattle, another place where rainy days were anything but unusual.
Then I moved to Southern California.
Here, rain became something rare enough to celebrate.
Created in 2017, Splash was my playful attempt to capture that feeling, the drops covering everything, California palms in the distance, and a rainbow appearing through the gray.
Looking at this painting today, I also notice something I rarely use in my current work: black.
There is so much of it here.
Today, my relationship with color has evolved and black is something I intentionally tend to avoid. But that is exactly what makes seeing this painting again so interesting. It holds evidence of where my visual language was at the time, and just how much it has changed.
ARTWORK DETAILS
- Acrylic on wood panel
- 12 × 12 × 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.
