About

Five Tides is just me.

I'm JP. I draw every design in this shop by hand — all of them, start to finish. There's no design team, no art department — just a kitchen table in New Hampshire, a stack of paper, and whatever hours are left after the day is done.

The day job is real: I run a cleaning company full-time. I have three kids. So Five Tides gets the early mornings, the late nights, and the quiet in between — which is when the coast does its best work anyway. I live on the New Hampshire seacoast, and the ocean is where I find my peace — and where every one of these drawings comes from: the working harbors, the marsh grass, the buoys, boats, and birds I see all year.

The dream is a small shop of my own someday. A real door, a bell over it, these designs on a rack. Until then, this is the shop.

When you buy from Five Tides, you're not buying from a company. You're buying a drawing one guy made because he loves this coast, printed on a genuinely good shirt, from someone who will stand behind it. The people who find this shop tend to come back and take two, three, four pieces at a time — that still floors me, and honestly, it's what keeps the pencils moving.

Since 2024, that’s added up to 570+ garments printed & shipped — counted order by order from this shop and Amazon. For a one-man operation, that number still floors me.

Someday, as this business grows, I want to give something back to the coast that gives me all of this. For now the job is simpler: draw things worth wearing, put them on shirts worth wearing, and treat every order like it matters — because to a shop of one, it does. That's the whole business model. Thanks for being part of it.