"Tavares Bay" - Stacy Vosberg, 2015

"Tavares Bay", by Stacy Vosberg, 2015 Acrylic on canvas board, Image size: 7" wide x 5" high Says the artist, "I have been an artist as long as I can remember.  An early family photo shows me at about four years old, at the living room coffee table, already with a paint brush in hand.  Creating art has never been a conscious choice or option.  Rather, it is a unique wellspring of creativity that truly defines me as a person.  The process of creating art comes as naturally to me as spoken language.  I was born and raised in Southern California.  Fascinated by stories about Hawai'i and the islands of the South Seas and the Caribbean, I often dreamed of living and working in the tropics and at age 19, I sailed from California to Hawai'i on a 30-foot sailboat.  The I hired on with the famous Windjammer Cruises.  It was a dream job!  I sailed through a series of tropical paradises, and in my spare time, I continued to draw and paint impressions of what I saw.  It was during that period that