Paintings 2025-26
When I was a child we always went to Ocean City before school began, after Labor Day. The town was quiet then . My Mom was an elementary school teacher at a private school and one of the benefits was extra weeks of summer vacation, one after Labor Day. One of her other benefits was that her kids, me and my brother, got to go to private school for free. This was a gift and it complicated my view of the world.
Ocean City was about thirty miles from where my Mom was born, in Salisbury, Maryland. To my maternal family this was home land. My mom learned to fish from my great grandfather in the tributaries and in the waves. I learned from my grandparents and the day that inspired this painting I was twelve. I could fish but Jackie Hull was younger and could not. Jackie was a nice boy, just shy.. His parents were older. His only sibling, Barbie, was much older. His father was a doctor. The hand on the rod was his nanny’s . I never saw his parents.