Becky Lee's Art Blog

    The young man who had found me on the internet was also in the crab business.  He asked me to paint a picture of his boat at his dock on Toogoodoo Creek. I especially enjoyed this painting since I had lived on the Toogoodoo many years earlier when I had done the painting he inherited from his grandmother.        Over the years boats have become an important part of my work.  I've often painted the simple little boats used by local crabbers and fishermen, but then, I've had request for other boat paintings over the years.          My husband, Hugh, asked me to paint his boat fishing in the ocean.  We had a 55 foot Thompson Trawler designed for long line fishing on the ocean.  We had purchased the boat named "The Fiddler's Green" and renamed the boat "Melissa Lee" after our daughter.  We simply ignored the old sailors superstition that it was bad luck to change the name of a...

        I began to think of myself as a successful artist when my work started showing up in estate sales and antique shops.  I've also had a couple of pieces that ended up in divorce settlements.  Then one day,  technology brought me another link to "success".  My son did a website for me, www.Beckysart.com.   I received a call from a young man who had inherited a piece of my work from his grandmother.          I remembered his grandmother, but I didn't remember the painting.  He sent me a photo.  It was a simple composition;  three bateau style boats in the edge of the marsh, the kind of boats local crabbers used along our Carolina coast.           I had also depicted this style boat in a more detailed painting called "The Crab Reels." This was a work done from memory.   The reels had been used to wind up long lines crabbers used before they be...