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
To the Gate captures one of San Francisco’s most iconic views—the Golden Gate Bridge—framed through the movement of a breaking wave.
Created in 2016, this painting holds something particularly special when viewed ten years later: one of the earliest versions of the wave patterns that would eventually become such a recognizable part of my work.
Looking at it now, I can see the beginning of a visual language I was still discovering—the movement, the lines, the intense color, and the idea of using the wave almost as a portal into another view.
The pattern has evolved tremendously since then, but the curiosity was already there.
ARTWORK DETAILS
- Acrylic on canvas
- 36 × 36 × 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.
