This artwork is taken from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's epic poem, "The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner"

'All in a hot and copper sky,

The bloody Sun, at noon,

Right up above the mast did stand,

No bigger than the Moon.

Day after day, day after day,

We stuck, nor breath nor motion;

As idle as a painted ship

Upon a painted ocean.'

Metaphorically each one of us is like a sailboat on the ocean of life, sometimes we are in stormy waters and sometimes we are in beautiful calm, sometimes the storm is beautiful and inspiring other times the calm is maddening... whatever our predicament it is so important for each of us to steer our respective ship to the waters that we want to sail in…

Limited Edition Giclée Prints taken from an oil on paper painting that I made in 2020 printed on Hahnemühle Pearl paper.