George Brinner

@georgebrinner

About

 I paint pictures with orange skies and purple trees and write stories that explore the recesses of their character's minds-in a casual way. I also own a little bar called Kahale Beach Club in Kihei on the southern coast of Maui where I can take refreshment and watch the whales play. 

Maui has been home since I came to Hawaii by chance in the summer of nineteen seventy eight. One perk I have as an artist and writer is I can survive in one place about as well as any other, so why not wake up to a pleasant day?

Occasionally my friends lounge in the shade of five palms that line the grassy knoll at the beach of Keawakapu - the Hawaiian word for forbidden harbor according to my bartender, Kimo Kuaana. They sip mai-tais and gin as they prattle on about this and that.

Sometimes I join them, but you may be more likely to find me in my studio a block away readying paintings for show or writing whatever comes to mind, and that's okay with me.