Ohia in the Rain by William Weaver Surfboard Print
Ohia in the Rain Metal Surfboard Print brings you closer to one of Hawaiʻi's most sacred native plants than you may have ever been. Artist William Weaver captures an ʻōhiʻa lehua blossom after the rain — vivid red stamens filling the entire frame, each one beaded with perfectly round water droplets that catch the light like tiny jewels, soft bokeh of green and red blurring gently behind. It is a photograph that rewards the closest possible attention, and keeps rewarding it.
Also known as an ʻōhiʻa lehua art print, native Hawaiian flower photography wall art, or Hawaii botanical macro metal print, this piece carries deep cultural and ecological significance. The ʻōhiʻa lehua is one of the most important native plants in all of Hawaiʻi — often the first to take root on new lava flows, a keystone species for native forest birds, and a flower woven through Hawaiian legend, chant, and tradition. To pick a lehua blossom is said to bring rain — which makes Weaver's choice of subject here feel like more than coincidence. William Weaver, whose previous piece in this collection celebrated the amaʻu fern, brings the same quiet reverence for Hawaiʻi's native flora to this close-up — a level of attention that honors the plant as the remarkable living thing it is. Printed using dye-sublimation technology onto a specialty cut ChromaLuxe aluminum panel shaped like a surfboard, the vivid crimson stamens and glistening rain droplets come alive on metal with a clarity and luminosity that makes every water drop sparkle.
Ohia in the Rain — WW12 is available in twelve sizes across both landscape and portrait orientations: landscape in 21"×9", 36"×12", 44"×11", 48"×16", 54"×18", and 60"×20", and portrait in 9"×21", 12"×36", 11"×44", 16"×48", 18"×54", and 20"×60". Each print comes ready to hang with eyelets included. A piece with the beauty and meaning of the islands in every frame.
Every print is locally produced in Kapolei, HI — made with aloha, right here in Hawaiʻi.
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