More Marine Art

More nautical artistic talents on display...

“Been doing Marine Art as what I call a seafaring artisan most of my life. Started out doing transom board carvings, name paintings until the "sticker" industry took over. When I'm not restoring some small craft I'm out plein air painting in one of my studio boats.” Capt. Suzan R. Wallace MFA MM @studio enVoyage

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“A North Coast Poem and a carving of "Grizzly Bear" - Bill Garden design - carved in garry oak” by Colin Masson.

Gwaii Haanas  Reflections - Swinging on your Anchor

Evening golden glimmer  
streaks across cedar and stunted pine,
and those two big scraggy  spruce trees fronting  the closest point.  
Views filled with forested mountains
Patterned,… deeply and subtly,
with colours and lights, 
Bare cedar-snag-tops, some spiky white slash-spots scattered.

Swinging around the good holding ground, 
solidly anchored.
Swinging first to…   the southerly breeze, 
then backing to…   north-west breaths and ebbing tide.
Evening light just barely dimming
Swinging thru the quadrants. 

Both you and the eagle -  watching…         
Twisty shore-cedars, giant storm-busted spruce limbs hanging,
Cracked outcrops, rocky, rugged-rough
and a rich fucus beach-layer 
Slick with bronze-mustard colour and watery, 
above the dropping tide-line…draining.
Perfectly reflected scarlet tinted sky  - outlines sharp but shimmering.

First one curious seal, 
Now… several curious seals, 
Pop-up astern, big-eyed… also watching.
Each sliding back under… with a little twist of snout.
Still you gently swing, 
switching the view in that rhythm 
of evening breezes cooling, 
and air dropping down valleys
bringing scents to our swinging;  
of estuary growth and decay, 
forest mossy and mouldy, 
wild woodsy 

And so swinging to anchor, 
With every perspective shift, its part of the scene,  so see it all…
Gina ‘waadluxan gud ad kwaagid  - Interconnected,
Yahguudang -  respected, '.

This coastal wildness can suddenly blow you away, dizzily knocks.
Natures soul-comfort momentarily overwhelms.
Parallels with knowing your core, 
And things that keep you centered. 
Swinging on your anchor…  a gentle spirit - you, 
you open, turning to new breezes 
but always 
Swinging on your anchor. 
Focused on essential things
sustaining body and soul.

When the wind blows up, 
your lines taunt, then aggressively jerked – 
Holding can be questioned, you…insidiously stressed.
Or…personal strengths believed in,  with check-ins                                                              Its time to believe in…  sufficient scope and all that holds you …
Those you love,  and don’t forget - those who love you – 
Trying for peace and harmony…good balance too
Spirit bright,,, not blue. 

But still you need to be watching – uncertain, maybe slipping? not holding? 
Losing the battle? An accumulation of concerns?
- cancer, covid, or conflagration? 
Considering what to do…is it down to,  
The remaining best-options-time?
No…no…you are holding your ground, 
simply swinging on your anchor.

Swinging on your anchor…

Colin m

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An art image and a poem from Larry Brown.

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“Retired art director. Lots of boating and rural landscapes on my gallery” Mark Frost

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“Here are two submissions to your open call for nautical artwork.

Pemaquid Sunset places a Friendship Sloop in a surreal imaginary sunset.

Ursa Major combines found navigation data with traditional and digital drawing tools to suggest motion at a celestial scale.” Bill Brayton

Pemaquid Sunset, 2023, 8x5.5” gouache and found digital image on Stonehenge paper. (Friendship Sloop design by Jay Hanna, Howard Chapelle)

Ursa Major, 2013, dimensions variable, gouache, charcoal, ink, found star chart on Stonehenge paper

Website: williambrayton.com. Instagram @bill_brayton

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“In 1981 I was 27 years old, solo travelling in Europe with a backpack and travel journal. Sketching in the journal was a great way of understanding where I was, and I was ‘drawn’ to the small wood fishing boats I saw hauled up and moored along the Mediterranean shores of southern France and Spain. Beautiful little boats that said as much about the old culture of the Med as any buildings did.”

Kim Isaacson S.F Pelican Thor

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