Paul Garnett
'Awaiting Sailing Orders'

Paul Garnett
'Eagle of the Sea'

Paul Garnett
'HMS BEAGLE'

Paul Garnett
'Valcour Island'

Paul Garnett
'HMS VICTORY'

Marine artist Paul Garnett is a native of Boston, Massachusetts.  For seven years in the late 70's and early 80's, he was a shipwright on the 1962 replica of the square-rigged vessel BOUNTY built for MGM's lavish remake of Mutiny on the Bounty.  His experience with the ship gave him first hand and upfront knowledge of what it really was to sail and handle square riggers, something that he strives to incorporate into all of his canvases.  His work is in private collections in the U.S. and Britain, and has been featured on A&E Networks show on "Sea Tales" as well as on the History Channel's "Histories Mysteries: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty."

His paintings have also appeared in Nautical World Magazine as well as covers for three novels on the War of 1812 by historian William H. White: A Press of Canvas, A Fine Topsail Breeze and The Evening Gun.  Between his many commissions Mr. Garnett is working on twelve canvases that will tell the history of H.M.S. BOUNTY.

Of his paintings Paul says, "Although I've painted many commissions of period ships and harbors I prefer to record sailing arid port events more from our own time.  This idea actually started with a statement in John Stobart's book that said when he arrived from England, he discovered that the long ago ports of America were not well represented on canvas by the artists of those days.  Thus, Mr. Stobart has made a lengendary career of painting ports of America, etc.  This is what gave me the idea of trying to pay a little more attention to what is happening right in front of our noses, something we all seem to take for granted."