Sailing Away

Combining a love of art history and the act of painting, ‘Sailing Away’ centers around imagery of Charons, sirens and shipwrecks. Often evoking a lost, solitary tone, these paintings use imagery attached to the sea to address themes of loss, memory and struggle. Boats become figurative vessels, sirens border on luscious, alluring mounds of paint. Skies and seas are full of alarm, dread and wonder.

These oil paintings grew from a series of ink drawings of shipwrecks set against man made environmental disasters. Taking on a mythical tone, lonely boats soon became vessels for a journey through the Underworld. Charon and his assistants labor to send the lost ones on their way. The imagery progressed to include sailors being enticed by sirens, and an entire theme of work was fleshed out from the sea. The paintings in this show are from 2023.