A 20-year quest to capture all the world’s oceans
ONE ARTIST FIVE OCEANS Is a 20+ year quest by Danielle Eubank to sail and paint all the world’s oceans to raise climate and ocean awareness.
Danielle Eubank’s decades-long quest as an expedition artist sailing and painting the waters of every ocean on Earth began as expedition artist with the UNESCO approved Borobudur Ship, a replica 8th century Indonesian boat that crossed the Indian Ocean, sailed around the Cape of Good Hope into the Atlantic Ocean and up the east coast of Africa.
The journey proved to be a pivotal event in Eubank's life as an artist. Her paintings of the waters of the open ocean and marginal seas were transformative, and the success of this work compelled her to paint the other oceans of the world.
On her next expedition, Eubank sailed on a replica of a 2,500-year-old Phoenician ship that circumnavigated Africa, a trip first made 500 years before the birth of Christ according to Herodotus.
She sailed aboard a two-masted barquentine tall ship on an expedition to the High Arctic that took her to Svalbard and the northernmost human settlement on Earth, Ny Alesund.
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On her next expedition, Eubank sailed on a replica of a 2,500-year-old Phoenician ship that circumnavigated Africa, a trip first made 500 years before the birth of Christ according to Herodotus.
She sailed aboard a two-masted barquentine tall ship on an expedition to the High Arctic that took her to Svalbard and the northernmost human settlement on Earth, Ny Alesund.
In March 2019, she returned from a rare voyage to the Southern Ocean, the fifth and final ocean for Eubank to visit and capture for One Artist Five Oceans. While this journey completed her landmark series of ocean paintings, Eubank continues to explore bodies of water all over the world, highlighting the consequences of the human footprint and need for environmental redress.
The body of work simultaneously communicates the preciousness of water and the impact of humans on the environment. Each journey, whether on a vessel in the open sea or studying canals and rivers, inspires her to view the bodies of water in exciting new ways, capturing each ocean as individual portraits of mood and emotion. Her attention to artistic expression is paramount. She paints using and unparalleled quality of line, form, composition and color, revealing her artistic mastery and innovation.
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A Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant awardee and a member of The Explorer’s Club, Eubank's relationship with ocean water began as a young girl growing up near Bodega Bay, California. In her travels as a young artist, she was captivated by bodies of water. She focused on painting their forms in their myriad conditions, refining her techniques of abstraction and realism until she was able to render their ephemeral qualities in her own style.
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There is only one global ocean, and one artist has captured them all.
Credits, clockwise from top: Arctic VIII, oil on panel by Danielle Eubank; Isle of Mull, oil on linen by Danielle Eubank; Danielle Eubank aboard The Borobudur Ship, photo: unknown 2003; Gallery of paintings: click on each painting for information.
Water artist and ocean artist Danielle Eubank (尤淡瑤) is an award-winning, international abstract water painter and ocean painter. She has painted all of the oceans on the planet to raise awareness about the state of the oceans and climate change. She is a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. Her abstract oil paintings are modern and emotive.