TITLE: : "GUAYAS" TALL SHIP FROM ECUADOR
ARTIST: CHRISTOPHER WALSH
Best of show, Ventura maritime museum "International Waters" exhibition

Walsh, 48, is a technical illustrator and graphic artist who began painting at a young age. He grew up on Long Island, NY and moved to California some 25 years ago. His subjects include ships, the sea, landscapes and portraits. Always attracted to sailing and the sea, it was here where he started to take serious interest in painting clipper ships and other nautical scenes. With a technical sense for detail he was inspired to overcome painting such difficult subjects without taking painting lessons. More recent most of the marine scenes are created from imagination.

After moving to California and attending school he started working as a technical illustrator and graphic artist for over 25 years. He quickly gained a reputation for managing very complex illustrations and became known for outstanding detail. Now a landscape, portrait, marine and western artist, he's enjoying the challenge of painting because it does take discipline and attention to detail and the efforts are rewarding to the soul.