Seascape Gallery – Oil on Canvas 

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 (West Pacific) on CGC Kukui WAK-186. Doing her portrait (way at the bottom of the page) for a 2007 crew reunion got me started painting again. Only one of these is available. Descriptions: let’s start at the top.
Incentive is the name of my most recent maritime and first yacht commission.
The Seagull is the most recent of my two paintings of Mystic Seaport (RI) which represent how much I missed the sea ten and twenty years after my time in the west Pacific. But they also reflect my love affair with history, which took a lot longer to grow into a passion. I had toured the Cutty Sark in 1970 but later, both USS Constitution and HMS Victory twice each.
The Pride of Baltimore II is unofficially the leading lady of the worldwide Tall Ships fleet. I was fortunate enough to cruise under the Mackinac Bridge aboard her in 2006.
After Sunset, sometimes known as “The Red Boat,” is from Jamestown, RI on my 2014 New England photo, fencing and Art Fair tour.
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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 was boat engineer on that same forty-footer on a mission down the Saint Mary’s River where I had grown up.
Keelung Island was the view from CGC Kukui leaving the northern tip of Taiwan in 1971. From my black-and-white photo.
In Soundings is my first real fantasy painting, dedicated to a friend who loves mermaids and lives with a pirate.
Mystic Reflections, from a 1984 photo, was my first attempt on this amazing nautical history museum, Mystic Seaport.

Whitefish Point Light may be romantic, but to me it represents an all-nighter trying to get her lit up on a very foggy night.
Round Island Light is the only other lighthouse I was involved with when they and I were both still part of the Coast Guard.
Fife Rail is part of the tall ship Niagara, a vessel I toured about 2015. She’s the starting point for those who want to crew on tall ships.
A Distant Sail started out as a study of a beautiful hand-built dinghy at an art event at the Door County Maritime Museum.

Coast Guard Cutter Kukui (WAK-186) was the ship on which I served my “two years before the mast” as an electrician. We decommissioned her in 1972. I also became ship’s photographer and produced the decommissioning commemorative book.
Ruthie’s Freighter was done while on leave from the Kukui in 1971 to replace a painting I had done for my sister. The subject: an unnamed ore carrier of the Pittsburgh Fleet of US Steel. Three or four of our uncles had sailed on their ships. Kukui’s XO, CDR Roger Bing, became CEO of the Great Lakes Fleet after retiring from the USCG as a Captain. 
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