Pete Harames grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, attended high school on the San Mateo peninsula and graduated from San Francisco State University. He taught middle school history and coached varsity basketball, baseball, and football for forty years.

He picked up painting as a hobby after he retired and began taking classes and working at local galleries in Half Moon Bay. Soon he realized that he had a true gift for creating art, and started concentrating on a collection of hand-painted watercolor sketches of historical landmarks in San Francisco and Half Moon Bay. The first sketch in the series was inspired by a picture of the Golden Gate Bridge taken from San Francisco’s Marina District, and it became the catalyst for the rest of the collection.

He was selected to participate in the annual 50/50 Art Show at the Sanchez Art Center in Pacifica, California where he created fifty 6” x 6” watercolor paintings of iconic places from Land’s End to Davenport.

He also completed a 36” x 60” oil on canvas painting of Chartres Cathedral in France.

Pete resides in Half Moon Bay with his wife, Tammy. He has two children, a son, Brett, and a daughter, Ty who has been instrumental in developing this website.