“Fakarava Shores” | Travis Weaver |

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“Fakarava Shores” | Travis Weaver

Title: “Fakarava Shores”
Artist: Travis Weaver
Medium: watercolor
Size: 4.5” x 7”
Artist Statement: Fakarava Shores is not a gaping hole in the ground of doom, you hear no tortured screams of grown men, Fakarava shores is a small peaceful home sheltered quietly under the tropical trees that sing you to a welcomed dreamless sleep. If it wasn’t for the military, I probably would not have found those shores or painted that picture. It made me who I am today and gave me a lens through which to look at life. It is a painting that represents a life lived in spite of the military, and a life lived because of it.

Bio: Travis is a Fine Watercolorist traveling around the world in his tiny sailboat home with his wife and two small babies. He served in the US Navy then went on study and earn his BFA from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. Travis is an American Impressionist Painter and Tonalist.