Celebrate our Artist Adam Koltz at the Off Track Gallery, Saturday, April 13, 2013

Join us on Satruday and meet Adam Koltz,a marine artist whose earliest memories include drawing ships and birds.  His first encounter with boats was sailing a 40-foot wooden sloop on Lake Michigan in his early teens.  About half of his twenty-year Navy career was spent on sea duty aboard several classes of ships, including merchant vessels. 

The artist’s refreshing and unique approach to marine art often integrates nautical charts with his ship portraits.  This enhances the visual presentation of marine history, and is a key element in his work.  Each subject is researched in detail to accurately portray the historical relationship between the ship and the chart upon which it is drawn.  Primarily, Adam works in pen and ink and watercolor to achieve not only detail, but life, richness and movement in his paintings.  Adam has recently expanded his repertoire to include traditional watercolor painting.     

Adam Koltz is a marine artist whose earliest memories include drawing ships and birds.  The artist’s refreshing and unique approach to marine art often integrates nautical charts with his ship portraits.  This enhances the visual presentation of marine history, and is a key element in his work.  Each subject is researched in detail to accurately portray the historical relationship between the ship and the chart upon which it is drawn.  Primarily, Adam works in pen and ink and watercolor to achieve not only detail, but life, richness and movement in his paintings.  Adam has recently expanded his repertoire to include traditional watercolor painting. 

 As an avid sailor and marine historian,. his attention to detail stems from his intimate knowledge of the subject, including the purpose of every line, sail and spar in his pictures.  His understanding of the interaction of ships with the natural forces of wind and water gives his pictures life and vitality. 

Adam is a member of the International Society of  Marine Painters, the National Maritime Historical Society, the Maritime Museum of San Diego, the San Diego Watercolor Society, and the La Jolla Art Guild.

For more information contact Cheryl Ehlers at sandieguitoartguild@hotmail.com.