“Guardians of the North”

24" x 36" | Oil on board

In 2021 I was invited to join the new Canadian artic patrol ship 'HMCS Harry DeWolf', the first to be built of a class of six.  The ship was the first Canadian naval vessel to transit through the arctic northwest passage since the 1950's.  She went on that same year to complete a circumnavigation of North America, a first for a Canadian naval vessel since 1954.

The ships were built to secure Canada's claim of her arctic territory and assist in maintaining communities in the north.  These ships would also work with US agencies in drug enforcement further south in the Caribbean and off the Mexican and the US coastlines.