Most coastal wall art is a beach nobody has ever stood on. Some rendering of a generic shoreline, printed by the thousand, hung in ten thousand living rooms that all end up feeling like the same hotel.
The art on our walls is different, and there's a simple reason. Anastasia Musick fishes the water she paints.
Who is Anastasia Musick?
A Florida marine artist based in Charlotte Harbor. Her story is something else: born in Kazakhstan, trained under working artists across Russia, Spain, Germany and China starting at six years old, then landed in Florida and pointed all of that training at our water and our fish. She travels from the east coast to the west coast to fish and paint, works in oils and acrylics. She and her husband run their own family print shop, built just for her art, where every framed canvas print of her paintings is made and embellished by hand.
The fishing world noticed before the art world did. She's been CCA Florida's STAR Platinum Print Artist of the Year two years running. Anglers are the hardest audience on earth to fool about how water and fish actually look, and they keep giving her the trophy.
Why put original art in a furniture store?
Because local art is the difference between decorating and belonging. When Maya finishes one of our coastal rooms with a Musick piece, the room stops looking furnished and starts looking like someone lives there, someone who knows what the Indian River looks like at 7am.
Her framed work hangs on our walls at 1024 S Harbor City Blvd in Melbourne, in several sizes, every print made in the family's own shop. Stand in front of one. Brushwork doesn't survive a thumbnail, and hers deserves better than one. More on our Anastasia Musick Art page.
Eric
