Artist: Elena Hyde
Title: Shell Collection
Medium: oil on upholstry fabric
Size: 8 3/4 x 7 3/4 in.
Artist Statement:
My great grandparents lived all across the world and started collecting shells.  As I was growing up, my mom had a shell cabinet that had shells that she collected along with shells from her mother, and her grandparents.  The shells in this painting are ones that can be found in Hawaiian waters.