This Minnesotan originally comes from California. Brian Stewart’s excellent paintings are renown for “funk, junk and antiquity!” Floats my boat. . .
His first career was advertising, but twenty years ago fine art claimed him. Not only a fine studio painter, he is devoted to working plein air as well.
Stewart teaches painting too: his next gig [...]
Bill Allen’s mission is to document the lifestyle of the Chesapeake watermen who ply the bay on the east coast of north America–before they are gone entirely.
For seventeen years this watercolorist was himself a professional waterman, coming from a family of several generations of Chesapeake Bay fisherman! Since he was a boy, he [...]
A commercial fisherman who turned to art in later life, Doug Kinney’s views on Port Orford, Oregon, has changed since moving here 17 years ago.
“It rains here, but we get a lot of the rain at night, and there’s wind, but you do things in the morning before it comes up,” Says he, “I [...]
This Texas artist’s watercolor technique just blows me away with admiration! So much life and love come through his creations too. Pat Glenn also plays the banjo in the old 5-string style and sings cowboy songs. He confesses to reading cowboy poetry as well.
Glenn notes he is a fan of Robert Yonke [...]
See more historic Alaskan fishing boats than you ever imagined! Additions made regularly. I just rediscovered this amazing photo archive of 20th-century Alaskan fisher folk and their craft! What an inspiration: many thanks to the creator of the site.
I found this one a few years ago. Then somehow I lost track of the link and [...]
