Dory Beach
by Steve Henderson
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36.000 x 18.000 x 1.000 inches
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Title
Dory Beach
Artist
Steve Henderson
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas
Description
Lightly leaning toward the viewer, a group of dories rests on the sand, awaiting the day's work.
These dories are not part of a living still life, an artistic array of wooden boats set up almost as a museum exhibit. These dories are very much used throughout the day and throughout the year in Port Townsend, WA, which hosts active working dock and harbor.
Once a year, during the Wooden Boat Festival in Port Townsend, the town is filled with a surge of visitors to attend the several-day event and view the many wooden boats that show up in the harbor to display their glory. But the rest of the year, the harbor is still busy, and the dories do their part in getting people to and from the larger ships, docked away from shore.
Dory Beach invites the viewer to step onto the beach on a quiet, sunny day, to come alongside the man by the yellow craft, to smile at the children playing in the sand. There is a peaceful busyness here that feels right and good, a busyness that is not stressful and loud, but purposeful, dynamic, and fun.
Like many representational paintings, Dory Beach encourages the viewer to stop what she or he is hurrying to do, to set aside the worries that perplex the mind, and simply view the image in the painting. Stepping away from the stresses of daily life is crucial to surviving that daily life, and one of the things that representational art does best is ease the viewer onto the journey.
Who are the people by the boats? Are the people on the water catching anything? What is the game that the children are playing? These questions, lightly thought as one’s eye views the paintings, are not unimportant ones, because they remind us that life is going on everywhere, in many different ways.
Perhaps the issues that we are focusing on so heavily are worth taking a break from. And by the time we get back, we’ll do so with a new perspective.
Featured in 34 Fine Art America groups.
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June 1st, 2017
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Comments (108)
Jenny Revitz Soper
BRAVO! Your artwork has earned a FEATURE on the homepage of The Artists Group, 5/09/2023! You may also post it in the Group's Features discussion thread and any other thread that fits!
Nancy Carol Photography
WELL DONE! Excellent and thank you for sharing with us your wonderful work of art that has been proudly presented on the Home Page of the group, 'ART FOR PASSION - PASSION FOR ART'. If you wish, you may archive it permanently or promote it further in the Discussions Tabs titled, "April -May 2023 Features."
Taphath Foose
Beautiful work, Steve!!! CONGRATULATIONS, your work is featured in "Your Best Work"! I invite you to place it in the group's "Featured Image Archive" discussion thread and any other thread that is fitting!! 😊
Jan Mulherin
Congratulations!! This stunning image has been selected to be featured for the week in the “Art for Ever with You” Group Home Page. You are welcome to add a preview of this featured image to the group’s discussion post titled “2020 May: Stunning Group Featured Images and Thank-you’s” for a permanent display within the group, to share this achievement with others. Also feel free to post your feature on our group Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/296998814248643/ Thank you for your participation in the group! ~Jan (May 20, 2020)
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