Art inspired by sailors, shipwrights and riggers.
Original paintings, photography, knotwork and wood turnings from the wood cut offs when the twin brigantines Irving Johnson and Exy Johnson were built. Featuring ink drawings by Scott Kennedy.Artwork will be on sale with proceeds benefiting the TopSail Youth Program.
Opening Reception with Scott Kennedy
Thursday, August 7th (6:00pm - 9:00pm)
Additional Exhibit Dates
Thursday, August 21st (6:00pm - 9:00pm)
Saturday, August 23rd (11:00am - 9:00pm)
fINdings Art Center
470 W. 6th St.
San Pedro 90731
Please RSVP for Opening Reception to: Joleen@lamitopsail.org
For more info, call 310-422-4146
ABOUT SCOTT KENNEDY
Scott Kennedy has built up his reputation as a maritime artist for the last fifty years. His love of ships and the sea, his attention to detail, makes him one of the most accomplished artists known today. The legendary J. Russel Jinishian, long recognized as one of the world's leading authorities on contemporary marine art, once expressed the opinion, "Nobody can sit down quite the way Scott Kennedy does, with a simple pen and piece of paper, and make sense out of all that they are looking at in such a beautiful and elegant way."
Scott began selling his distinctive drawings and oil impressions that focus on the marine environment in which he was raised at the tender age of thirteen. By the time he was barely sixteen, he had been selected by California Governor and future president Ronald Reagan to create a pen and ink rendition of the Sacramento Governor's mansion for Reagan and his wife Nancy.
At the age of 21, Scott flew to Denmark with the intention of finding a classic wooden sailing vessel that he could bring back to the west coast of North America and eventually take up residence in Mexico. But as it turned out, he ended up spending the next decade sailing the waterways of Denmark, Germany and Holland while capturing the boats and architecture of the regional waterfronts. Many of those works still remain on display in prominent maritime museums throughout northern Europe, including the private art collection of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark.
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