Carefree Surfer is a portrait of rhythm and ease. A figure on their board moves along the tideline, where foam fingers out and light spills across wet sand. Richard Wieth strips the subject to essentials so the painting reads as a feeling first—sun on shoulders, salt in the air, the lengthening beat of late afternoon.
 
 
The edges are open where the scene needs breath and crisp where the story needs clarity, letting the eye settle on the confident stride before wandering into shimmering reflections. The palette leans warm-to-cool, with amber notes in the shoreline sliding into layered blues and greens. Thick, assertive touches catch highlights along the board and crest, while softer passages suggest glaze-like transparency over water.
 
 
It’s a piece that brings a sense of calm momentum to a room—welcoming in an entryway, quietly energizing above a desk, or conversational in a living space with natural light.