Evening Whale Dive

Artist: Pam Haunschild

Format: Acrylic on paper mounted on board, black float frame

Dimensions: 12" x 12" x 2"

Description:

There's a particular thrill to spotting a whale from shore — the sudden splash on the horizon, gone almost as soon as you register what you're looking at. Pam Haunschild paints that exact moment here: a tail mid-dive against deep evening blues, the spray still hanging in the air, golden dune grass anchoring the foreground the way it would if you were standing on the bluff yourself. "Hopefully this will be either a reminder of the time we got to see the splash of diving whales off the coast," Haunschild says, "or a hope to see this in the near future." It's a small painting that holds a big feeling — the particular patience and luck of coastal whale watching, captured in the instant just before the water goes still again.