Original oil painting on uniquely shaped handmade stretched canvas. * * * This painting was a passion project as well as a step in the right direction. A labor of love in the best way. From picking out the stretchers to building the canvas. The concept was to convey that the ocean is the mother of all life and home to us all. Hence the peculiar shape of the canvas. Centered amongst the crashing of the waves is the gddess of the sea herself. I wanted to personify the ocean as a lively, playful grand force of nature. So as not to have her confused with a mermaid, she not only blends in with the waves but becomes them. Her hair and arms fade into sea-foam as her form shimmers and reflects the sky such as the water. She is quite so the embodiment of the sea. The mother of creation and home to life.