Caliban

Every 2 years, the Masterworks Museum of Bermuda Art hosts the Charman Award gallery show. Artists are asked to enter a piece, typically with a Bermudian theme. This is my entry this year.
I typically start digitally, and then move to paint after.

24" x 36" Acrylic on Canvas. Framed with a custom built Wenge wood frame.

Bermuda is famous for her shipwrecks, our discovery and colonization was the result of the wreck of the Sea Venture in 1609. Typically, the two things to survive shipwrecks, are the chickens and the hogs. We used to have a massive Bermuda Hog population, but that's vanished. Chickens however seem to be EVERYWHERE.

Passing ships would refer to Bermuda as the Isle of Devils, because of the sounds of animals they would hear coming from the shore

It's thought that Shakespeare's The Tempest was based on the wreck of the Sea Venture, so I thought it appropriate to name this rooster Caliban.

"the isle is full of noises, sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not." - Caliban