Felicity L. Kostakis

Tribe I

Tribe II

"My wife surprised me with a gift of two of Felicity’s paintings of our Gunboat TRIBE. Christmas morning my breath was literally taken away as I awoke to find them hung in our living room. Felicity captured two distinctly different perspectives of TRIBE transforming memories of racing together as a family at Antigua's 2011 Race Week into heirlooms to be shared for generations to come. Both of our children laid claim to the one that would some day be theirs. Their choices were clearly a reflection of their own personalities. My son was captured by the passion and energy in her first painting, TRIBE charging boldly to windward through the foaming waves of the Caribbean Sea. My daughter fell in love with the disarming tranquility of the second, a silhouette of TRIBE flying a hull while reaching along at 18 knots to the mark. For me, every pass by these beautiful works of art is the gift that keeps giving."

Kind of Blue

"Kind of Blue" is a custom, Maine-built lobster boat named after the Miles Davis' studio session that changed jazz forever. Like Davis' masterpiece, the painting is alive with motion, capturing the boat's stout-hearted path home through cold, choppy water. Nearly every hue of blue is on display. Davis' jazz album was the first to use atonal intervals, an homage to Shostakovich, to create an anxious, unresolved sound. The painting conveys that same bluesy feeling, fusing classicism with something startlingly contemporary and fresh"