Visions of Beauty The Ocean's Poetry
For many years, until we moved to our ranch in Montana, our family gathered at the Alabama beach for the Christmas holidays. The traditions created as the children became adults, still continue and now are shared by their children. Instead of my mother reigning, even with Alzheimer’s, over the holiday festivities, I am now the grandmother sharing these joys with the little ones. Many of these paintings were part of my show at Christina’s Art Gallery in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Childhood
2002 Oil on Canvas 16″ x 20″ framed $1500 Contact to Purchase As I look out the beach house, I see the mists of gold and honey-colored hair flying in the wind, young children laughing and playing. I hear the squeals of laughter and shrieks of excitement as chilly waves tickle little feet.
God’s Creation
1999 Oil on Canvas 30″ x 15″ framed Sold To stand on a beach alone at sundown with shifting sand beneath my feet and the waves crashing into the shore fills me with awe at the profound greatness and beauty of creation. No random chance could produce such majesty.
Apostles
1998 Oil on Canvas 20″ x 24″ unframed Sold Four men test their fishing fortunes on an afternoon away from work. People picture our Atlantic coasts dense with buildings and population, but this sandy stretch of Alabama, where mother sea turtles deposit their eggs and dolphins frolic in the waves while oil is pumped off-shore, is deserted in winter and never crowded. For over fifteen years I have walked these beaches hundreds of miles and never tire of them .
Belonging
1999 Oil on Canvas 30″ x 15″ framed Sold Standing on a beach unscarred by human footprint, while the dolphins dart and frolic and the gulls argue overhead, fills me with a deep sense of belonging. I am on this earth, of this earth, and a part of creation. What a magnificent feeling.
Laura
1998 Oil on Canvas 8″ x 10″ unframed $800 Contact to Purchase She is the first – our grandchild … a precious combination of love, warmth, compassion, pout, and charm. It was Christmas, her first trip to the beach. Timid and shy holding tight to me, she ventured onto the sand. And there we sat building a sandcastle together, sharing a moment I shall never forget. She discovered the beauty of the waves, the sky, and the gulls, and I was filled with love of her and memories of her daddy at that very age.
Shadows
1999 Oil on Canvas 16″ x 20″ unframed $2000 Contact to Purchase This title and description is for my children. Even with nightfall on them, the football must be tossed one more time. It has been a day long with excitement and rollicking fun, but they hardly notice. They play until cold and hunger drive them indoors.
Solitude
2001 Oil on Canvas 24″ x 30″ unframed $2000 Contact to Purchase A winter afternoon on the beach and nothing could be more perfect: gulls squabbling overhead, cold water splashing on my ankles, the sun’s turning all the houses into golden shrines. I feel so alive and glad to be alone andr even happier to be holding the hand of someone I love.