Most works are for sale directly from the artists. Stephen Ehret grew up on the San Francisco peninsula during its rural period, attending the College of San Mateo and finishing his formal education at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland. For the past thirty years he has lived and worked in Marin County and has his painting studio at the Industrial Center Building in Sausalito, amidst a community of some sixty artists. He lives on the water in Richardson's Bay and this environment is reflected in his paintings. He uses a glazing technique that starts with a graphite rendering on canvas which is then covered with layers of trasparent acrylic color, using only cyan, magenta, and yellow to create the full palette of hues allowing the underlying pencil drawing to create the tones.
Light reflects on water the way emotions wash over the heart.
I find these emotions expressed in the many aspects of the constantly changing surface of the environment on which I live. The effects of light are metaphors to express the transcendent spirit. Time and the flow of emotions over that time are essential ingredients. These paintings are autobiographical. At the age of nine, he and his family moved to Venezuela.