Nautical Art

This illustration was created due to my lifelong love for the ocean. A tall ship is a large traditionally rigged sailing vessel. Modern tall ship rigs include topsail schooners, brigantines, brigs & barques. The term tall ship came into use in the mid 20th century with the advent of the Tall Ship Races.

This illustration was inspired through my friend and world-renowned artist, Robert Lyn Nelson. Robert is the creator of the “Two Worlds” painting and a pioneer in the modern marine art movement. His paintings forever changed the way we view our relationship to our environment and the many unsolved mysteries of the living creatures who embody the oceans and seas of our planet.  

RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner which sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on April 15, 1912 after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton, England to New York City. The sinking of the Titanic caused the deaths of 1,514 people in one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in history. She was the largest ship afloat at the time of her maiden voyage. The Titanic was one of three Olympic class ocean liners operated by the White Star Line and built by the Harland & Wolff shipyard based out of Belfast, Ireland. The wreck of the Titanic remains on the seabed gradually disintegrating at a depth of 12,415 feet. Since the ship’s rediscovery in 1985 by Robert Ballard, thousands of artifacts have been recovered and put on display in museums worldwide. The Titanic has become one of the most famous ships in history. Her memory has been kept alive through numerous books, films, exhibits and memorials.