'Heave-Ho' Print

I painted this in St Ives, Cornwall, UK. I initially thought of my Father as a young man who used to row Curragh boats in Connemara in the West Of Ireland. I tried to capture the ferocity of a storm at sea and studying seascapes of the Russian painter Ivan Aivazovsky and J. M. W. Turner, blended these elements to create this painting. I also wanted to convey the sense of power that nature holds