Marie Van Elder has always been terrified of the ocean, so she forces herself to sit at its shore and make paintings of it. This gives tension to her work — and when John Lindsey saw this sense of ...

A few months ago, Erick Toussaint came up with an idea to entertain his housebound children by creating chalk art on the sidewalk in front of their Ocean Beach house. Although his two children quickly ...

SAN DIEGO — In the spring of 2022, I reported about "The Event" which saved an Ocean Beach man's life and gave him a new beginning. In this Zevely Zone, I share the feel-good follow-up story from the ...

It's enough to make you seasick. But in a good way. The ocean waves swirl and ebb and flow and rush around you. There is a breathless calm and an effervescent majesty in the paintings of Ran Ortner.

'Tsunami,' 2008, by Paulette Bensignor (Paulette Bensignor/for Great Bay Gallery) A mixed-media sculpture by Paulette Bensignor (Paulette Bensignor/for Great Bay Gallery) 'Shark Bait' and detail from ...