While I have been designing and building wooden boats for the last 30 years and have most likely drawn literally thousands of pages of technical drawings, there has been a strong desire for me to find a way to express my “bit of Art” so to speak! 
 
So in late 2005 I made some phone calls and found artist Chris Brown of Olympia. On my first meeting with Chris he asked me what I wanted to do with "watercolors" and I replied “I want to paint boats” so matter-of-factly that it startled me. It never occurred to me to paint anything else. 
 
The paintings that are exhibited are all on a theme and all of them tell a different story about my life with boats… I hope that you find them as enjoyable to look at as they were to paint… I find that putting either pen or brush to paper is a very amazing process and the idea of bringing out of a blank piece of paper something that feels as strong as a good drawing or painting is simply magic!