James Nyika

San Diego Bay, Original Painting

2020

Artist Comments
"I wanted to capture the key elements of the bay in a highly impressionistic way, painting almost a la prima," shares artist James Nyika. In this quick but energetic painting, James worked to capture the rapidly dying light. "This is one of the most beautifully silhouetted bays in the world!"

About the Artist
Artist James Nyika paints the glowing atmosphere of cities across the world. As a child growing up in Kenya, he found art materials at the student bookshop and also borrowed just about every art history volume from the British Council library in Nairobi. "I checked out the same books over and over just to stare at the art, to try and understand how it was created," says James. With family encouragement to study engineering, James moved to the U.S. and immersed himself in science studies at Boston University. Several years after embarking on a tech career, he set a goal to create at least one painting a week, never throwing away any works and learning as much as possible in his off hours. Today, James still balances his full-time career designing large software systems with his prolific output as a painter. "Painting is a great antidote to the regularity of a computing profession and I really value it for the uncertainty that it brings - something frowned upon when writing code."

Words that describe this painting: San Diego, bay, water, boats, yachts, evening, skyline, city, cityscape, sunset, dusk, California, sky, impressionism, seascape, travel, representational, watercolor painting, blue

San Diego Bay
James Nyika
Watercolor painting on paper
Ready to frame
One-of-a-kind
Signed on front
2020
16 in. h x 20 in. w
0 lbs. 1 oz.