I have a thing about faces and love portraits: That moment captured in time..the emotion caught forever. This artist – Kai Samuels-Davis seems to have an absolute instinct for committing to canvas impossibly transient sentiment and creating paintings that both emerge and disappear.

He lives with his wife in the small and beautiful coastal town of Jenner, just 70 miles north of San Francisco  – and the peace and calm of his surroundings seeps into his work. They’re grounded and real.

In the dream house that lives in my head, I have several on the walls…there’s also a studio where I can pretend to be him..

Laters, Kate x