Red Sky at Night

Red Sky at Night 24″x18″ acrylic

Maybe the painting should be sub-titled “Just another Ship in A Bottle”.

The ship enclosed in this mason jar however is an image of The Melita. It was the passenger ship that carried a young Phoebe Connor, her parents, brothers, and sister to Canada as they immigrated in 1920’s. The aforementioned Phoebe was my mom, so the Melita at least to me will never be just another ship.