Hokulea Acrylic Print

Hokulea, Polynesian, canoe, ocean, worl-wide friends, sustainability, no borders, plastic drinking water bottles, sailing, Hawaii, pride of Hawaii, clean water

"The Polynesian Voyaging Society (PVS) was founded in 1973 to carry out an experiment that would help answer some questions: how did the Polynesians settle the far-flung islands of the mid-Pacific – by accident or by design? Did their canoes and their knowledge of navigation enable them to sail purposefully over the vast sea distances between Pacific islands?

"PVS began with the building of a replica of a Hawaiian voyaging canoe, Hōkūle‘a, launched in 1975, to explore the seafaring heritage and the voyaging routes of our ancestors...." Find out more here: http://pvs.kcc.hawaii.edu

I've been watching Hōkūle‘a and her trips across the waters since she was first launched, and it's a privilege to paint her. I've wanted to for years and years and just never did. Here she is.

If you adore brilliant color and simple form and delighful Beings who play and laugh a lot, you'll probably enjoy what you find here. I like to think that when you gaze at my images you might start to feel like breathing deeply and feeling like Life is Good; like laughing, or like life isn't so hard - and that maybe it's more sweet than you ever imagined, and that you just want to hug it all around yourself. What else is life for than that? The prints you get from this site are excellent, and match the images you see here almost perfectly. I hope you'll be pleased when you get any of these images on paper, poster, cards or canvas. aloha - Angela