Piece description from the artist
The Gulf Stream is a river of warm water (25 to 100 miles wide, depending on where you are), a powerful, fast-flowing, and deep current that brings warm water from the Gulf of Mexico up the eastern coast of the United States and then across the Atlantic to Europe. When storms or any North wind are blowing off the eastern seaboard, "the stream" turns vicious with steep, unforgiving walls of water close together. Sailors sometimes call these waves boxcars and elephants. When trying to navigate through such dangerous conditions, it often seems as if the boat is just bashing into brick walls or being tossed about. This painting is about that. From the safe vantage point of a Florida beach, looking out, they look like lumbering elephants.
Jane Lawton Baldridge is a Signature member of the American Society of Marine Artists and the National Association of Women Artists. Her passion is creating artworks about water.
Recent solo exhibits, Oceana Phenomena: Sea Stories, Sea Level Chronicles & Wisdom of the Waves 2024, Cornell Art Museum, Delray FL; 2023 Navigation Oceana, in Lake Worth, FL, 2022 Oceana Phenomena: Keys Sea Level Stories, The Studios of Key West, Key West, FL, 2022 Oceana Phenomena: Chesapeake Sea Level Stories, Annapolis Maritime Museum, Annapolis, MD and 2021 Portfolios: Jane Lawton Baldridge, A Sea Story Girl, Elliott Museum (June-October 31st), curated by Alicia Weber, Hutchinson Island, FL.
In 2024, Jane has participated in 41st Schaefer International Marine Art Exhibition, The Sailing Museum, Newport, RI, By Heart, NAWA, Annette Howell Turner Center for the Arts, Valdosta, GA 2023-24 The American Society of Marine Artists 19th National Exhibition, The Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY following was the The Minnesota Marine Art Museum, Winona, MN, World of Water at The Cornell Museum, Delray Beach, FL, Emerge Yourself : Art with Purpose, with Michelle Drummond in Lake Worth, FL, Sensations at the Museum of Arts & Sciences, Daytona Beach, FL. Maritime Art in Coos Art Museum, ONE ART SPACE, Times Square, The Musée du Louvre, Lincoln Center (2x), the Museum of Computer Art, the Mint Museum, the Cameron Museum of Art, the Fayetteville Museum of Art and the World Festival of Art on Paper (Slovenia). She has been published and her 911 Tribute, is in the print archives of the Library of Congress.
Her film Wisdom of the Waves is an official selection in 33 International Film Festival and has won 13 Awards and 9 semi-finalist designations.
She attended California Institute of the Arts and the Alfred G. Glassel Museum School.
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