Into the forest I go - to lose my mind - and find my soul
ECHO IN THE ACRES
"An eighteen-year-old girl and a raised-in-the-woods wild boy, team up to thwart the efforts of a powerful development firm that is out to turn a sacred forest into a shopping mall.”
New Release!
RICK SHARP'S NATURE POSTERS
1970s NATURE POSTERS: The Forgotten Art of Rick Sharp is the dramatic and often humorous memoir by Santa Barbara poster artist Rick Sharp. With just India ink and pen, the young artist created a treasure trove of idealistic posters lost in time until now. The memoir breathes new life into art that once celebrated Mother Earth and her nature-loving inhabitants. The book covers the years 1970 -1980 and follows the artist from a child prodigy in Texas – to a near death experience in Mexico – to a sought-after pop artist in Southern California. The book offers an intimate look at the artist’s Santa Barbara lifestyle: his unorthodox search for the perfect model and mate, his practice of composing songs and prose to accompany his art, his relations with famous rock stars, and his struggles to be accepted as an incurable, hopeless romantic. Follow this renaissance-man into fields of flowers, mountain creeks and pristine beaches - all depicted in his brilliant pen and ink posters of the era.
ABOUT THE ARTIST: Rick Sharp is a self-taught artist who specialized in poster art executed in a flowing, linear style. In the 1970s, he was commissioned to create concert posters, calendars, movie posters, magazine ads, book covers, logos, postcards, t-shirt designs, and album covers. His posters were popular in Southern California where they appeared throughout the '70s. Later in his career, Sharp became Hawaii's premiere vintage poster artist. His images of "classic" Hawaii are still prominent throughout the Islands.
Christmas 2023 Release
CHRISTMAS with Saint Claws
and his Animal Friends
A beautiful and uplifting story that captures the true essence of the holiday season. It teaches children valuable lessons about kindness, friendship, and the joy of giving. Parents, teachers, and children alike will appreciate the enchanting narrative and the book's positive and inclusive messages.
IN THE PRESS
NATURE POSTERS
The Lost Art of Rick Sharp
...Sharp's gorgeous work is as familiar as a gust of patchouli at a Dead concert. The cross-pollination of Sharp's era-defining posters and SB's '70s adolescence is elegiac. The man is a messenger from one of our town's most beloved epochs and is that glowing era's artist-of-record.
Jeff Wing
The Montecito Journal
