Austin’s artistic style and process evolved organically as a metaphysical melding of his lifelong connection to the ocean as an avid swimmer and surfer, along with his fascination with astrophysics and science fiction. Partly experienced, partly researched, and partly imagined and dreamed. Artistically he was influenced by the paintings of WMF Turner and Mark Rothko. Austin assimilated his interests in physics, fantasy, and nature into his expressive practice of creation in his digital medium. GK Austin II is a Southern Californian native. At a young age, he developed a life-long love for the water finding the ocean or a backyard swimming pool the safest place in the world. “As an artist, water has been my primary muse,” and this muse has delivered. His compositions include icebergs floating adrift on a black ocean, canyon boulders sculpted by water into ornate swirls and patterns, clouds the size of mountains hovering over a calm or stormy sea, and an electric blue high tide washing onto a black sand beach in Iceland. Austin’s medium is digital. He selects patterns from nature called fractals. He combines or morphs them digitally into one another and collages them into compositions that excite. He has sold his work in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Palm Springs, and Chelsea, New York.