18x24x3 Acrylic

These tall ship paintings are dedicated to the women of Portsmouth between the 17th and 18th century. There is not much known about them, just bits from written information as marriage licenses and baptismal records. We do know that this woman Gerrish was sailing with her husband. She was doing some of the ships logs and navigational paperwork

What to me was the most fantastical story that I had read was that women with their children sometimes they were on the ship with strap themselves to the mass below when there was a huge storm so that they wouldn’t get swept off to the ocean. This really keeps my life in perspective when I think of some of the stores that seafaring women went through.