“You need to have lived and worked on the ocean to be able to paint the ocean.” So says Nelson-based marine artist Sea Garwood, of the speciality that he says is the “most difficult genre to master.”
And master it he has done. All it takes is a look at his extra-ordinary paintings to appreciate this. These are works that transcend technical accuracy and verity, to become unique works of art as well. But it hasn’t been an easy passage for Sean to get here.
“Fishing was my life,” he recalls. “I’ve done commercial fishing in many places and with many shipmate – Australians, New Zealanders, Norwegians, South Africans,.” Sean has been a deep-sea trawler skipper. He’s also done much scientific
