City hike, San Francisco
Acrylic on wood panel · 12 × 16 in
Selected archive
A longer view.
A chronological selection from Ola’s original portfolio and studio archive, tracing the movement from oil landscapes and travel paintings toward gouache, city light, and imagined space.
This is a selected public archive, not the complete studio inventory.
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Neon Rain, Japan
Gouache on paper · 12 × 12 in
2025
Recent gouache moves between luminous forest, city rain, and deep-space source imagery.
Bamboo Forest, Japan
2025Gouache on black paper · 8 × 10 in
Bamboo Forest, Japan, pt 2
2025Gouache on paper · 8 × 10 in
Cosmic Tornado (large version)
2025Gouache on paper · 12 × 16 in
2024
Oil and gouache return to coast, garden, and the reflective surfaces of the city.
Avenue of Giants
202410 × 14 in
Japanese Gardens
2024Oil on panel
Japanese toast with melon and ice cream
2024Gouache on paper
Lost Coast, California
2024Oil on wood panel
Rainy day in New York
2024Gouache on paper · 10 × 14 in
The purple ocean
2024Oil on panel
2023
Astronomical source imagery becomes a field for saturated color and compressed scale.
New Small Asteroid Photobombs the Webb Telescope
2023Gouache · 9 × 12 in
2022
Gouache brings cosmic subjects, imagined figures, and observed landscape into the same graphic language.
Pillars of Creation
2022Gouache on paper · 9 × 12 in
A Cosmic Tarantula
2022Gouache on paper · 12 × 12 in
Hello from ISS
2022Gouache on paper · 12 × 12 in
After Van Gogh’s Wheat Field with Cypresses
2022Gouache on watercolor paper · 12 × 12 in
Fagradalsfjall
2022Gouache and acrylic pen on paper · 12 × 12 in
Amsterdam
2022Acrylic gouache and pen on panel · 8 × 8 in
2021
Small gouaches move between coast, travel, the city, and more playful imagined subjects.
Cats
2021Gouache on watercolor paper · 12 × 16 in
Ocean Beach
2021Gouache on paper · 9 × 12 in
Sunflowers
2021Digital painting in Procreate
Łazienki Palace, Warsaw
2021Gouache on paper · 9 × 12 in
Morning, Afternoon, Firelight, Dusk
2021Gouache on paper, framed · 13 × 24 in
Russian Hill, San Francisco
2021Gouache sketch on clay board
Jezioro Długie, Olsztyn
2021Gouache on paper · 9 × 12 in
Octopus escapes down pipe to ocean
2021Gouache on paper · 9 × 12 in
Ocean Beach, San Francisco
2021Gouache on paper · 9 × 12 in
2020
San Francisco remains a point of return alongside a growing interest in compressed, dreamlike landscape.
Sutro Baths, San Francisco
2020Gouache on paper · 9 × 12 in
The Golden Gate Bridge
2020Acrylic gouache on canvas paper
Icy Sea Travels
2020Gouache on paper · 9 × 12 in
Quarantine bear, San Francisco
2020Gouache on paper · 9 × 12 in
My view, San Francisco
2020Gouache on paper · 9 × 12 in
A fantastical tree
2020Gouache on watercolor paper · 9 × 12 in
Flora Grubb Gardens sketch
2020Gouache on paper · 9 × 12 in
2019
Observed landscape begins to merge more directly with imagined space.
Space Skull
2019Oil on board · 24 × 18 in
Vikings were here
2019Oil on canvas · 30 × 24 in
Pink&Yellow
2019Oil on canvas panel · 18 × 24 in
Bella’s staring into another dimension
2019Oil on wood panel · 18 × 24 in
Desert landscape in Page, AZ
2019Oil on wood panel · 24 × 12 in
Postman
2019Acrylic on canvas panel · 11 × 14 in
Geary sunset
2019Oil on canvas panel · 5 × 7 in
Orchids
2019Oil on board · 8 × 8 in
Square #9
2019Oil on board · 8 × 8 in
Square #7
2019Oil on board · 8 × 8 in
Tokyo marker sketch with Fuji
2019Markers on watercolor paper · 5 × 7 in
Red tree square
2019Oil on board · 8 × 8 in
Tokyo lanterns sketch
2019Markers on watercolor paper · 5 × 7 in
Page, Arizona
2019oil on wood panel
Dusk with Milky Way
2019Watercolor on watercolor paper · 5 × 7 in
Sunset marker doodle
2019Markers on paper · 5 × 7 in
Gouache seascape sketch
2019Gouache on paper
2018
Travel, especially Japan and Iceland, expands the range of place, weather, and artificial light.
kayaking on ice
2018Oil on wood · 16 × 20 in
Rain in Tokyo
2018Markers on watercolor paper · 5.5 × 8.5 in
Evening stroll in Shinjuku Tokyo
2018Markers on watercolor paper · 5.5 × 8.5 in
kimono ladies in asakusa
2018Oil on cradled wood · 24 × 30 in
Piss Alley, Shinjuku, Tokyo
2018Oil on cradled wood · 18 × 24 in
Unexpected wave
2018markers on watercolor paper · 8.5 × 5.5 in
Kraken
2018Markers on Watercolor paper · 8.5 × 5.5 in
Summer evening in Italy
2018Markers on watercolor paper · 5.5 × 8.5 in
Birch hut
2018oil on canvas · 20 × 24 in
Green challenge
2018Oil on Canvas board · 24 × 18 in
2017
Wide oil landscapes move between California, memory, and more speculative skies.
Steinbeck country
2017Oil on Wood · 16 × 20 in
Death Valley tree
2017Oil on Wood · 18 × 24 in
Sunset on mars
2017Oil on Board · 18 × 24 in
hot air with squid and lobster
2017Acrylics on Canvas panel · 18 × 24 in
Fields (after Van Gogh)
2017Oil on canvas · 18 × 36 in
Lands End on New Year
2017Oil on panel · 16 × 20 in
Bonfire with a Norwegian Aurora
2017Oil on canvas · 24 × 36 in
2013–2016
Early oil paintings and studies centered on still life, coast, weather, and direct observation.
Quiet Storm in Australia
2016Oil on canvas · 12 × 36 in
Yellowstone national park - midway geyser basin
2015Oil on Canvas · 20 × 16 in
tomales bay kayaking in the wind
2015Oil on Canvas · 12 × 9 in
Photographer in Yellowstone
2015Oil on canvas · 5 × 7 in
Lands end
2014Oil on Canvas · 24 × 18 in