The Islander

As a child I spent school breaks on Horn Island, an ununhabited barrier island off the Mississippi coast. It wasn’t until art school that I learned of the work of Walter Anderson, an artist from Ocean Springs, Mississippi. Anderson spent much of his career painting in solitude on Horn Island. He rowed the 12 miles out to the island in a tiny rowboat, which I eventually discovered was a far better boat for the journey than an aluminum canoe.