Oil on Canvas Seascape Gallery
I’m still discovering how important maritime life is to me. On the Saint Mary’s River on the Canadian border where I grew up, deep steamboat whistles were a constant part of our daily soundtrack. Our uncles worked on some of those ships. After college I served in the U.S. Coast Guard, four years active duty, two at sea on CGC Kukui WAK-186. We decommissioned her in 1972. Doing her portrait got me painting again in 2007. Three 2013 paintings were based on photos I took decades earlier. Getting Ready for Spring is from a black-and-white photo I took as part of my Coast Guard PIO job. The summer before, I had served as boat engineer for a trip down the Saint Mary’s River on that same forty-footer.
