Sug Oshen

Take Home The Ocean.

I have been fortunate to have lived along the east coast my entire life. I grew up along the Jersey Shore spending my time between Red Bank and South Mantoloking. I've spent the last 25 years enjoying the Outer Banks of North Carolina. I’ve always had the ocean a few minutes or a few miles away. I remember meeting people who would say it was their first time to a beach or that they can only get to the shore once a year. And the only thing they would take with them, as a reminder of their trip, was a t-shirt or a car decal. I thought wouldn’t it be amazing if you could take home the ocean?

Ocean Water and Ink.

So I began working with alcohol ink, which is a very fluid and unpredictable medium. I feel that alcohol ink has many of the ocean's characteristics and by adding ocean water directly into the ink, it allows me to actually paint with the ocean. In the beginning I received ocean water from friends and world travelers who would collect water during their adventures, send it to me and I would then create an artwork with that water they would send. Today I create custom artworks for people all over the world with water they have sent to me from a place that is meaningful to them. I recently...