The Poison Oak Beauty Pageant on Highway One / 48 x 36 / Oil on Canvas
Original Oil Landscape Painting of Coast looking south along Highway One, between Stinson and Muir Beach, by Liana Steinmetz
Artist Notes: Poison Oak. Everyone hates it. Everyone avoids it. Everyone talks about it behind its back. You spot it on the trail and instantly look the other way. It never gets invited to backyard parties or tucked into flower arrangements. Ugh—just the worst, right?
But… is it really?
Hear me out. As long as you don’t touch it, poison oak is actually kind of amazing. It’s an expert at adapting—its leaves grow broad and flat like coasters in the shade, or small and curled like thumbnails in the sun. It can creep low around your ankles or climb thirty feet up a tree, depending on where it lives. It shelters birds and small animals, and when fall arrives, it puts on one of the most beautiful color displays in the forest—flashing yellows, oranges, greens, reds, and even pinks.
This patch here was glowing—a brilliant yellow against the pink rocks and green reflections in the water. I couldn’t resist the color combinations. I had to paint it. Looking at it while painting for so long, I had time to think about how cool it really is. If you just don’t touch it (and keep your dog out of it) it really is a beautiful plant.
This view looks south along Highway One, between Stinson and Muir Beach. The distant landmass on the horizon is San Francisco.
DETAILS:
- Original Landscape
- Oil on stretched canvas
- 48" x 36" x 1.5"
- Sides are painted as a continuation of the painting.
- Wire on back, ready to hang.
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We love the painting Liana commissioned for our personal home! She was wonderful to work with from communication to the execution of the piece. As an interior designer, I have never been so pleased with a commission and so grateful this piece gets to live with us forever!
Bailey Ward
Interior Designer
Liana has such a distinctive method of mark-making and a rich unique pallet that imbues her scenes with much personality, feeling, and aliveness. I fell in love with her scenes instantly, feeling the beauty of the California landscape captured and translated into affection and joy for place.
Michelle Nye
Former Gallery Director, SF MoMA Artists Gallery
We have 8 gorgeous prints of Liana's decorating an addition to our house we rent on Airbnb and I can't tell you how often they are complimented and guests ask us about the artist. I find it impossible to look at one of her paintings without feeling wonder and joy for our beautiful corner of the world.
Molly Thompson
Collector, San Rafael, CA
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As I was moving away from San Francisco, I wanted to capture the beauty of the view from my hilltop flat. I'd fallen in love with Liana's work when I'd seen it years earlier, and I knew she was who I wanted to bring that vision to life. Luckily for me she said yes. It was in the height of the pandemic so we did a video call, and I gave her the tour and shared some pictures. She turned that into a beautiful reincarnation of that gorgeous vista that I can now look at every day, even though I've moved thousands of miles away. She was amazing to work with and knew exactly what to do to bring three dimensions to life on canvas. Liana did such an amazing job. Every time I look at that painting I really feel like I'm back home in my apartment in the trees.
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