Ship's Bones
To Lloyds amazement someone asked why we
needed a picture of
a shipwreck in a
book about
lighthouses.
Prevention of
shipwrecks was the
primary reason for
lighthouses. In an
1972 address to
Congress about the
need for Currituck
Beach Lighthouse,
the Lighthouse Board
said, "…many vessels
laden with valuable
lives and cargoes
are in danger of
being lost between
these points" (Cape
Henry to the north
and Bodie Island to
the south).
Title:
Ship Bones
Size:
8x10" print in
11x14" mat
/
11x14" print in
16x20" mat
Style:
Mated Water Color
Print
Price:
11x14" $50.00
/
16x20" $65.00
Origin:
USA
Slight variations in
color are normal due
to monitor settings
Keeper Originals: Watercolor Paintings and Prints was formed in 2003 after the artist, Lloyd Childers, left her lighthouse
keeping duties on the
Outer Banks and retired to Hampstead, NC, near Wilmington, to begin painting in earnest. After a career in State Government, she moved to Corolla on the Outer Banks as the lighthouse keeper for Currituck Beach Lighthouse and executive director of
Outer Banks Conservationists, Inc., the nonprofit group that restored the keepers' house, lighthouse and
lighthouse compound in Corolla. Having been a "keeper" for five years and hoping that her paintings would be "keepers" the name Keeper Originals seemed fitting. Lloyd enjoys the watercolor medium for her paintings, which she has professionally reproduced in art prints of various sizes and note cards. The art prints are handsomely matted to fit standard sized frames.
