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| Dennis Shattuck |
Out of the Florida Keys comes Dennis Shattuck, an artist who taught himself how to capture the dazzling scenes that constantly embraced his daily life as a fishing guide.
Anchored up under the Seven Mile Bridge waiting on the giant tarpon to get energized by the evening tide change and with a cool breeze softly spinning around him, Dennis would glance westward towards the Everglades to witness a burst of lingering colors beyond imagination as the day wrapped up its final show time performance.
That beauty, and that brilliance, and that clear pure visualization of nature that so few have the fortune to experience required sharing. With a brush and a old piece of canvas some wandering artist had abandoned, Dennis starting relating the visions of the Keys and the Islands by painting them. He initially started showing them to his fishing clients who immediately purchased them and encouraged Dennis to create others.
Deciding that he had disrupted enough tarpon lives, Dennis sold his guide boat and acquired a great deck chair which he nailed to his dock figuring that neither of them were going to move much for the next couple of years.
Those days of hanging out in the Keys have gone the way of the sunsets he painted, and have been replaced with the opportunity to travel thoughout the Caribbean and to paint the scenes that constantly demand his attention. The beauty of the Islands is not possible to explain with words, only through the artistic talents of Dennis Shattuck can a mainlander start to comprehend what Dennis sees and feels every single day.
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