Phil Cusumano has lived the very truth of his subject, commercial fishing, both as a marine artist and a sea captain. These exciting paintings drop you in the middle of the action! Most will find his strong color hues also drawing you to his art.
He works both in the present and the past, [...]
Carol Thompson excels at conveying light, depth, and movement in oil on canvas. Her high-key color choices are very popular too!
Thompson’s art was included in the book Contemporary Western Artists –and honored with feature articles in Southwest Art and Stepping Out.
Numerous venues in the West give you opportunities to see [...]
The long and successful art career of Roger Bansemer is amazing! He has worked in a number of styles but lately focuses on representational paintings of landscapes, shorebirds, wildlife, beachscapes, and nautical themes. In particular he has become known as America’s premier painter of lighthouses.
His book, Southern Shores, evoked this quote from the [...]
Enjoy the LA Times 2007 story on this fishing family here.
David, the subject of the news article, is Art Haworth’s son. Art originally had the boat built. David converted it from a troller-and-longliner to a seiner. Pictured above is the original F/V Barbara H. I learned about this fishing family’s traditions and history [...]
This phenomenal photographer captured eyecatching views of a ship graveyard off Staten Island in the New York Harbor. Bonnie K Frogma is a Brooklyn resident who also pursues kayaking and sailing avidly. Otherwise her day job is finance analyst.
Beware, navigating her photo gallery is not simple, at least it wasn’t for me. But [...]
I no longer remember exactly how Ray Annino and I first connected online, but I was immediately drawn to his gift for telling abstraction in his art. Not only that, Annino’s palette is also unusual and original among watercolorists. While his approach is light and careful, the results are dramatic.
Searching for worthy subjects, [...]
Stephen Kaimmer comes from the Puget Sound area, graduating from McGill University, Montreal. Since 1985 he has worked as a fishery biologist for the International Pacific Halibut Commission (IPHC).
In the past Kaimmer also worked as a deckhand on the Virginia V, an Alaskan halibut boat. He has held other Seattle-area fishing-research positions, including [...]
After thirty years’ experience, his watercolor technique shows it: sophisticated, detailed, with maximum control of his medium. This artist’s style is realistic, his color palette low in key (he calls it “moody”).
Tandecki’s imagination is truly active and energetic in finding creative ways to maintain viewer interest in the subjects he loves.
This [...]
Robert Yonke gets attention with his loose, striking watercolor style and his less common riverboat theme.
His Bluegrass Painter Blog reflects his double passions for art and for bluegrass music.This link takes you to see a select group of working-riverboat paintings from his hand. There are others scattered through his varied online [...]
William R. McGrath of Summerfield, FL, is famous for his boat subjects–and also his historical passion for boats from the Civil War. His original art is usually in oil and alkyd on canvas or board. This artist seems to be unusually successful at marketing prints of his original work, and you can see why. [...]
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