art treatise maritime art By Marimar McNaughton From the wilds of Roanoke Island to the back roads of Harkers Island, intrepid artists plunder the coast for subject matter. Time and again boats in yards is a universal theme. RROBERT IRWIN OBERT IRWIN shelved a myriad of careers to adopt the life of an artist. The former cruising sailor and motor yacht crewman found safe anchorage on a sublime slice of paradise amid a treed landscape that screens a woodland studio on property backing up to deepwater near Beaufort, North Carolina. “I painted work boats, sailboats, and toward the end, I got very interested in the Carolina flare and the angle you got when stand-ing under them in the yard,” Irwin says. “These big boats are just spectacular.” Randy Ramsey’s Jarrett Bay charter boat flagship, Sensation, is one of the boats Irwin painted over and over. “Sensation — the shape of it, the tumblehome transom, the flared bow — it was on the yard a lot off season,” he says. “You Low Tide at Taylor’s Creek, 30 x 37 inches, watercolor. 58 WBM may 2015
Wrightsville Beach Magazine May 2015
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