Take Me to Sea

“Take Me to Sea” 28 × 40” oil and 24k gold foil on canvas, 2025.

Tada! Introducing my latest large-scale painting, “Take Me to Sea.”

This piece has been a true labor of love — six months in the making. I painted a smaller study of it last year (which has since sold and you can see below), but this 28 x 40" oil painting with 24k gold foil feels like the vision fully realized.

“Take me to Sea Study” 4 × 6” watercolor, acrylic and colored pencil. 2024. SOLD

A few years ago, I wrote a poem titled Shipwreck. It has always felt like the words to this image, as though the two were meant to meet. Together, they use the sea as a metaphor — a pull toward something deeper within us.

Shipwreck

Leave me be

Leave me be

Except for

In the meadows of my sleep

The windswept cliffs

I call you, so sharp and steep

To your drums I dance

In moonlight so heavy

Dream, the essence of your neck

Till sea and sky shall levy

For when your sails

Luff my breath at last

Your anchor rest ashore

Broken be my mast

To stay with you once more

If this piece stirs something in you — if it feels like the ocean calling, like surrender, like finding yourself in the middle of the wreckage — I’d love to hear what you see in it. Take Me to Sea is available, and serious collectors are invited to inquire for details or to arrange a private viewing.