Claudia Chapline, Tyler James Hoare, and Jone Small Manoogian have focused on the interactions of wind, water, sand, mud, and marshes around the Bay Area for decades.

An exhibition of their work, “Ebb & Flow”, opens in the Peninsula Art Museum Oct. 11 with a reception from 1 to 4 p.m. and closes Dec. 31.

The Museum is located at 10 Twin Pines Lane in Belmont’s Twin Pines Park.

Chapline lives and paints in Stinson Beach; Hoare haunts the Berkeley mudflats; and Manoogian explores the Peninsula’s baylands.

Their preoccupations, interactions, and interventions have resulted in memorable artwork – paintings, sculpture, collages – that persist in reminding us of our dependence on and fascination with our saltwater environment.

Claudia Chapline lives on the sand spit between the Pacific Ocean and the Bolinas Lagoon, one of the few remaining saltwater estuaries in the country. Her acrylic paintings on canvas, plastic, and paper are abstract interpretations of the fragile and continually changing environment of the lagoon, marshlands, and beach.

Tyler James Hoare collects the debris that washes up on East Bay mudflats and transforms the bits and pieces into figurative sculpture and masks that adorn the posts in front of the Charley Brown restaurant, but he is most famous for the series of “Red Baron” airplanes that perched on ancient pilings for decades.

Storms and tides eventually destroyed the original set of pilings, but the newest airplane incarnation was recently installed on sturdy posts closer to the restaurant pier.

Jone Small Manoogian discovered the Palo Alto Baylands when she was assigned to do a plein air painting for a Foothill College art class. The marshlands provided her inspiration for over 30 years, during which span of time she also created a series of “flora-photo-collaged” assemblages.

These assemblages, combining color laser prints with seasonal plant materials and bonded with beeswax, exemplify the four seasons; each took a full year to complete.

Admission to the Peninsula Art Museum is free. Museum hours are Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays from noon to 4; Saturdays and Sundays from 1 to 4.

For further information, or to schedule a docent tour, please call 650-594-1577.