THE FINE ART OF SAN CLEMENTE
Contemporary paintings of the
Spanish Village-by-the-Sea

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"I have a clean canvas, and I am determined to paint a clean picture.
Think of it!
A canvas five miles long and one and a half miles wide."
Ole Hanson, founder of San Clemente

Over seventy years ago, a man had a vision for the coastal city he would build right between Los Angeles and San Diego. He envisioned "hundreds of white-walled homes bonneted with red tiles," with "palms lining the drives", and where people were getting "a healthy joy out of life... a place where a man can breathe!"

That village he began in 1928 is now a rapidly growing city. There are literally hundreds of red roofs, and a network of streets lined by palms. Homes have been built to the very shoreline, and to the tops of the surrounding summits. The climate is still ideal, but this Mediterranean-style secret called San Clemente is changing rapidly, as people move to its borders from all over the world. Its beaches, its ridgetops, its open spaces are even more valuable, because they can more easily disappear. It is this landscape that has been preserved, over the last 30 years, in the acrylic and watercolor paintings of Rick J. Delanty.