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Kids Sea Camp Guest Stars
Kids Sea Camp is delighted to feature visits from famous and talented marine artists around the globe. The following artists have joined with Sea Camp to encourage children to express themselves and their love of marine life in constructive, creative ways.
Rogest
Rogest is Ron G. Steven -
Many years ago, Ron changed his career path from a man in a business suit behind a desk to a dive instructor in shorts working on liveaboard dive vessels. Years later he finds himself painting the underwater critters from the thousands of exceptional dives he has experienced world wide but primarily on the Great Barrier Reef, Coral Sea, Papua New Guinea, Caribbean, Tahiti, Mexico and the colder waters of the west coast of Canada. |
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"For most of my life I have felt a creative yearning inside of me, however it has only been in the last few years that I discovered an avenue to express it. This discovery came about on a trip to South America where a chance meeting with a deeply spiritual and talented artist encouraged me. The timing was right and I knew it was time to put paint to canvas.
The brilliant colours and bio-diversity of this underwater environment has undoubtedly influenced my paintings. The vivid underwater images I have experienced have burned a vibrant seascape into my imagination. This is the source of my inspiration.
To me art is a way of conveying to our children, future generations and us the importance of looking after our lands, our oceans. I plan to do my next series on this topic. www.rogest.com |
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Margo began her diving in 1989 and already an artist above water began to paint and draw the world below in 1999. She is now a resident of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida after moving from the Cayman Islands.
She travels the world and loves to paint, draw and sketch many beautiful and endangered sea creatures.
Margo has donated many of her Sumi inks and paintings to The American Oceans For Youth, Our World Underwater, Fund raisers for local School projects as well. Margo enjoys painting with children and has done so for the past 8 years. |
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Tom Peyton
 Tom Peyton became a diver when he met Margo in 2005, Certified in Curacao with Ocean Encounters together with his new step son Robbie and daughter Jennifer, Tom has embraced diving and traveling around the world with his new family. Tom’s background is incredible. He had a play be produced off Broadway, editor for Newspapers winning hundreds of National awards as Art Director, illustrator and now an editor. Tom has owned his own gallery as a talented acrylic painter, and continues today to turn out magnificent creations of nature and marine life on canvas for charities of Kids Sea Camp. Some  of his prints will be available in our online gallery. He has directed many creative workshops based on the book called the Artist’s Way. His work has been on display at the Ambassador Gallery in South Florida as well in Soho in NY City.
In addition Tom has an amazing vocal talent, with two albums as lead singer of an acoustic rock band from South Florida. He has performed for Kids Sea Camp families in the Cayman Islands and Honduras and Fiji. Tom’s album can be heard or purchased on i-tunes under “Heart of The Rose”. Tom is currently a senior editor over photography and visuals at a newspaper. Tom loves to attend Kids Sea Camp where he can to sing, shoot photos, paint and dive with his family.
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Michele Westmoreland
 Michele began her diving and underwater photography career in South Florida 16 years ago. She is now a resident of Mill Creek, Washington after moving to be with her photographer husband, Stuart. She travels the world to capture images of the wonderful ocean world along with topside travel photography. Michele has been published in many highly recognized publications such as Sport Diver and other international diving magazines, Islands, National Geographic Travel & Adventure magazines, Caribbean Travel & Life and Outside. She has won several awards for her imagery. Michele lectures for numerous organizations and is a tour specialist/photo pro to exotic locations.To capture her images, Michele uses Canon cameras and lenses in UK Germany housings and supported by Ikelite strobes. If you would like to see more of her and Stuart's work, visit www.westmorlandphoto.com.
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