This tall ship is called Willie, and is part of Broome Sunset Cuises in Northern WA. I was given a photo of this scene by a good friend of our family and I fell in love with the colours of the sunset reflecting in the water and the ship itself. I love to paint almost anything, but something special happened to me when I created this one. The paint just flowed onto the canvas with such ease, that it was almost like I had been painting boats all of my life! I have pondered on this after the painting was completed and I have worked out I have a deep love of boats possibly stemming back to my late Father always taking me out in our family boat as a child. I also have fond memories of sailing in a tall ship called The Evening Star as a teenager, so it all is starting to make sense to me. So with this said, I feel there will be a few more boat paintings happening shortly!
