Winter Banks of the St Lawrence River Painting

Sailing towards Montreal on the OOCL St Lawrence during the winter of 2022, I often sat outside the wheelhouse, staring at the frigid landscape as we passed it by. The rumbling of the engine on this massive vessel was seemingly muffled by the stillness of the winter landscape - an attempt at escape in my mind - as the 8 month long contract onboard seemed to stretch out, just like the ice floes on the river that shares the same name as our good ship. -30 degrees Celsius was the reading on the thermometer on the bridge wing, the only consolation being that the dock workers would likely not be sent to work when we berthed the following morning at the Bellerive terminal. I still think back to those days, passing by the quaint Canadian landscape, held in stasis by the biting cold, which I finally decided to put on canvas more than a year later.