This is not one of my pictures:
"North Sea" - A rare depiction of a modern ship at sea by Danish maritime artist Johannes Moeller
I do own it, however, and I love it.
It was part-payment for a job I did many, many years ago when I was a freelance PR consultant in the UK. It is both beautiful and significant, as there are very few paintings of modern ships at sea by significant artists. [UPDATE: My good friend Paul O'Mahony found this on the internet: North Sea.]
I am donating it, along with prints of my own work, to the “Bid for Haiti” auction that I am helping to organize.
Nationally- and internationally-renowned artists, photographers and sculptors will be giving original pieces to be sold at the event, which will be held on Sunday 14th February at the Gresham Metropole Hotel here in Cork. Viewing and registration will be from 11am, and the auction itself will get underway at 3pm.
This is going to be a phenomenal opportunity for bidders to acquire original works, none of which have a reserve price on them.
All the proceeds from the auction will go to GOAL‘s Haiti relief effort.
Please spread the word about the auction. Blog, twitter, facebook… anything you can do to help publicize the event would be fantastic.
And if you have a chance, please come along. There will be some wonderful things up for auction. What could be more rewarding than filling that blank space on your wall with art that helped alleviate some of the suffering in Haiti?
