Oil on canvas

36"x96"

$5,995

I have painted a number of works on eight-foot canvases. They are not for everyone, but when someone wants a wall to come alive, this has been a good choice. I like them because the scale consumes the viewer field of vision. My smaller works seem to me to be something you might see looking through a window. Large works like this are almost like being there. Your eyes are filled with the image as you walk up to it, as they would be if you were actually standing in the scene.

Like our local harbors I have painted, our beaches are going through changes. Bulldozers are moving beach sand into the dunes and creating an un-natural transition from dune to beach. In preparation for this work I drove down Mustang Island beach about ten miles before I came across the dunes looking more as I remember them growing up in their natural state. Dunes where you didn’t have to use a ladder or wooden steps and walkways to get over them. Its hard to see in this photo, but one lone Gull glides above the scene which helps to attach the abstract sky to the more realistic foreground.

The house and structures were taken from a black and white photo of the Sim’s Home, one of Port Aransas’ pioneer families.