{artist: Dale Fairbanks}

Another beautiful piece by one of my favorite artists, Dale Fairbanks. I not only love her work, but the stories she tells about each piece. Wonderful!

Flight of the Ridleys
Price: $12,000.00
Size: 96″ × 60″
Date: 2009
Medium: Oil on Canvas

The Kemp’s Ridley Sea Turtle is one of the smallest of the sea turtles and the most endangered. Under strict protection, the Kemp’s Ridley turtle is struggling back to recovery battling its primary enemy: the human and his activities.

Kemp’s Ridleys nest off of the coasts of Mexico, but one of the major habitats for this species is in the waters of the northern Gulf of Mexico, especially the Louisiana salt marshes.

The Kemp’s Ridley, the Loggerhead, and the Green Sea Turtle are all found in this area I call home. The Gulf Islands National Seashore fills our back-porch view across Santa Rosa Sound, and we join many in the grand effort to protect and safeguard these sea turtles who come to our seashore to nest in early May.

This painting has been brewing for several years…I am pleased the scrambling hatchlings brought it home.

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