This is an old fashioned rose that according to a book I have originated in Paris at the time of Napoleon. His wife Josephine had a legendary rose garden with many varieties. Such roses can still be grown and are sometimes found in specialty nurseries. This 8 x 10 painting is an oil on canvas panel. For information on the price of this painting, click here.
This 10 x 8 oil painting is on a canvas panel. The painting features subtle colors of garden roses. For further information, click here.
This is a 10 x 8 oil painting on stretched canvas. There are several garden roses in this painting. For further information, click here.
This is an acrylic painting on stretched canvas of brilliant purple red flowers on a gold background. For further information about this painting, click here.
I have been told that many people collect this beautiful shell.   A friend of mine showed me her collection of three and I was amazed at their beauty! This one is probably much larger than most, as I have depicted it in the center of a 5 x 7 canvas panel, but it would make a striking addition to a collection of shell paintings! For more information about this painting, click here.
Here’s more from my personal collection of seashells. This is a 5 x 7 painting in tones of rust, brown grey and white.  All seashells have shells that consist of calcium carbonate, which is very strong and hard. A shell is like a mobile home–you carry it with you! For more information about this painting, click here.
Here’s a fine collection of sea snails: The Cerith, The Moon snails, the Lewis Moon Snail and the Colorful Atlantic Moon snail. There is also a common periwinkle in this 5 x 7 painting. For more information about this painting, click here.
Dog whelks are found in the inter tidal zone, the area of the shore covered and exposed by tides. They live all around the coasts wherever there are barnacles, oysters, or mussels. The banded tulip is also a sea snail. In England, whelks are considered tasty and very popular. An average whelk has 137 calories, 24g of protein,, .34g of fat and 8g of carbohydrates. (Not for me–I’ll stick with peanut butter and crackers!) For more information about this painting, click here.
The Admiral, Geography and Orbigny’s Cone Snails are all beautiful–but deadly! Their venom, the conotoxin is heavily researched by biochemists seeking medicines to treat a variety of human neurological disorders like Parkinsons, alzheimers, and epilepsy. Cone snails are taken and sold in vast numbers to research labs around the world. There are more than 800 species of poisonous cone snails. They are lovely and colorful, but do not pick them up. Their sting can be fatal. For more information about this painting, click here.
This is an 8 x 10 painting. The Queen Conch shell is one I have owned for years! Conchs were used by the Haitians to summon voodoo spirits. The Florida Keys were a major source of Queen Conchs until the 1970s, but harvesting them is now prohibited. The cone snails are not friendly fellows. They have over 100 toxins in their body and the venom is similar to curare, used by natives to make poisonous arrows. There have been over 30 recorded cases of death by cone snail. For more information about this painting click here.
