Down by the Bay

Boardwalks of worn wooden planks lay along hot summer sand, connecting families, childhood memories, and vintage cottages along the shore. Rickety stairways plummet down the steep sand dunes of northern Michigan, while wind-bent pines hold on to the collapsing bank of beach grass. These memories mingle together with more recent walks with my family along the May River of Bluffton, SC. Along the century old dirt roads of Old Town, classic white cottages propped high on stilts are protected from ocean flooding and create shade from the blistering sun.

Waterlilies and Pink Flowers acrylic on 40x40x2 wood cradle (diptych 80x80x2)

Pink Waterlily acrylic on 40x40x2 wood cradle (diptych 80x80x2)

Waterlily diptych 80x80x2

Blue cottage with orange door on sand dunes acrylic on 10x10x2 wood cradle SOLD

Cottage with blue roof and gulls on rocks acrylic on 10x10x2 on wood cradle SOLD

Sleeping Bear Dunes and gulls on rocks acrylic on 10x10x2 wood cradle SOLD

Sleeping Bear Dunes with inlet acrylic on 10x10x2 wood cradle SOLD

Cottage with Slanted Roof and Waterlilies acrylic on 10x10x2 wood cradle

Yellow Farmhouse and Waterlily Field acrylic on 10x10x2 wood cradle

Farmhouse with Orange Trees acrylic on 10x10x2 wood cradle

Blue House with Orange Grove acrylic on 10x10x2 wood cradle SOLD

Pink Farmhouse with Meandering Fence acrylic on 10x10x2 wood cradle

Teal Roof Farmhouse with Corncrib, Stream and Cow acrylic on 10x10x2 wood cradle

Stacked "Down by the Bay" small works series on 4x4x2 wood cradle

Blue cottage with yellow door acrylic on 4x4x2 wood cradle SOLD

Sunset and seagulls on posts acrylic on 4x4x2 wood cradle SOLD

Striped cottage with deck and pine acrylic on 4x4x2 wood cradle SOLD

Pine and sand dunes acrylic on 4x4x2 wood cradle SOLD

White cottage with ladder and pine acrylic on 4x4x2 wood cradle SOLD

Cottage with propped shutter acrylic on 4x4x2 wood cradle

Pine and garden acrylic on 4x4x2 wood cradle

Two cottages on the shore acrylic on 4x4x2 wood cradle SOLD

Cottage with blue roof and orange door acrylic on 4x4x2 wood cradle SOLD

Yellow cottage with blue door acrylic on 4x4x2 wood cradle

Cottage with pink window and orange buoys acrylic on 4x4x2 wood cradle

White cottage with teal roof and sand dunes acrylic on 4x4x2 wood cradle

Stilts, ladder, and green door acrylic on 4x4x2 wood cradle