Artist, writer, naturalist, and Bay Area native Obi Kaufmann returns to Marin Art and Garden Center this spring to mark the release of the latest book in his exploration of our natural state, The Coasts of California.

Featuring over 400 of the author’s signature watercolors and maps, The Coasts of California invites readers on an odyssey from the rocky coast of Crescent City to the mosaic of the Channel Islands. In this ecological epic, Kaufmann explores where land meets ocean— where most of the human population of the state lives and where its natural world is most threatened—painting a vision for a more sustainable future along the way.