MY IDEA FOR THIS PAINTING began on spotting some beautiful underwater photos, by Belinda Collier-Morrow, posted on the White River Fish Sanctuary Instagram page. She kindly gave me her permission to paint from them.
I still love the reefs and feel every bit as protective of them as when I worked in scuba diving, here in Jamaica, in my twenties and thirties. Despite my change of career and having witnessed a heartbreaking deterioration of the reefs in the last 20 years, I still feel compelled to do anything I can to help. Although damaged, the remaining reefs and their residents represent an important indicator for the health of the ocean and by extension, our planet. Being an island nation, the
