Lance deHaven-Smith

Beach Scenes

"Bright Night at Alligator Point," winner of best in show at the 2007 Southeast Regional Fine Arts Exhibition.

 

 

 

"Assaulting the Beach"

 

 

 

"Our Beach House"

 

 

 

 

"Running from Katrina"

 

 

 

"Mashes Sands BP"

 

 

"Alligator Point at Sunset in the Late Fall"

 

 

 

"Lookout at Alligator Point"

 

 

 

Lookout 1

 

 

 

 

 

 

View from the Window

 

 

 

Haunted House at Alligator Point

 

 

Summer before Katrina

 

 

 

 

About These Paintings

Most of these paintings are scenes from the beach at Alligator Point, which is on the Gulf Coast about 30 miles southwest of Tallahassee.

As indicated by the title, "Our Beach House" is a painting of our house on Gulf Shores Boulevard.  "Bright Night at Alligator Point" depicts the beach from the deck of this house on a night with a full moon in the late fall.  (This is the most beautiful time of the year at the Point.)  "Running from Katrina" shows the backyard after Huricane Katrina, which pushed seawater in a swale behind the house and killed many pine trees.  To this day, I see the barren pine tress, all lined up with their limbs raised like the hands of people raunning in terror, as a scene of destruction and horror.  Trees, I think, have emotions that play out much more slowly than the emotions of humans and other animals.