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Yacht owners take their vessels around the world, collecting unique artifacts from any country they may stop at on a whim. So, what do you get the man or woman that seems to have everything... How about a beautiful portrait of their own yacht?

Fort Lauderdale based Yacht Portrait Artist, Lizabeth Anne Stirling-Perkins uses her well-established acrylic medium to capture the details of both the vessel as subject matter and a work of art.

 Initially a watercolorist, Liz began selling her work in 1992 in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Since then, her style and frame of reference has simply been what she has seen and felt. Her exhibitions in both Montreal and London, between 1995 and 2004 have provided her with a professional base to pursue a more finite niche while doing the work she loves, without jeopardizing her passion and creative freedom.

Self-taught, her portfolio contains everything from the abstract to the figurative, the impressionistic to the photo-representational, a style so many admire in her yacht portraiture. As vast as her style may be, a reoccurring theme seems to shine through, and that is the sea.

 Stirling-Perkins originally from Canada, married an American and now resides in South Florida. She joined the MIASF (Marine Industries Association of South Florida) in 2009, and is a Member Artist with the Bonnet House. Her appreciation of the Yachting Industry is two-fold. Having worked as a freelance yacht chef since 1988, and becoming a yacht owner with her husband in 2005, her career has been divided. The battle has been between palates. The artist’s palette is her passion. Having sailed and motored on several singularly beautiful vessels up and down the Eastern seaboard of the United States, on the Mediterranean and Aegean Seas and across the Atlantic to the Azores, she has found profound artistic and professional satisfaction in immortalizing the “Ladies of the Sea” in full and living color.

A few of her yacht portraits can be viewed in Fort Lauderdale, in the MEGAYACHT Division of West Marine, Professional Captain’s Services Department. If you are interested in contracting Liz to capture the essence of your yacht, give her a call and she’ll be happy to forward you digitized examples of her work from her studio to your helm anywhere in the world.

 Artist

Lizabeth Anne Stirling-Perkins

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