'Halifax Shipping Lane : Sunday, October 18th, 2009 -14:01'oil on canvas
12" x 12"
$ 180
The view is typical: the ship has just made the turn and is heading across the Atlantic.
That is how I used to view these ships, but now, things have changed.
This ship is the back end of the Atlantic Compass (ACL-Atlantic Container Line) and it only arrived into port earlier this same day. It came from the eastern seaboard port of New york and is now en route to Antwerp.
The seas are rough today. It will be a long voyage overseas. the Pilot Boat sits just to the bottom right hand side of the ship. You can barely make it out from the boathouse view and justly, can barely make it out in the painting.
People ask me why I paint with grey. Truth is, it looks like this a lot. The other truth is that grey is one of my favourite basic colours. There are so many beutiful colours of grey.
