About George

Baltimore City
George Kalwa was born  in Baltimore, and graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 1978 GFA. He worked as a court room illustrator, portrait painter, sign maker, then became a broadcast designer, animator and Film Maker spending a lot of his time in the ocean where he created an offshore fishing tv show. Now he paints from his vdeography and photography.
His love for water, the ocean life constantly inspires his work.

Sealife Offshore

The Ocean's surface is a mirror, reflecting light, colors, and life above. It is translucent, allowing light to pass through and illuminate life beneath.  The great and beautiful sea inspires and challenges me to understand and record it's power and beauty. There is much movement. Nothing is still. Paint is like the ocean. It's fluid and moves like water. Colors interact like birds and fish and whales.
   Sixty miles offshore is another world filled with unimaginable beauty, stimulating every human sense.
  • blue marlin jpg.jpg
    blue marlin jpg.jpg
    30" x 40" Oil on canvas
  • White Marlin chasing Flyers
    White Marlin chasing Flyers
    Oil on Canvas 24" x 36" White Marlin chasing Flying Fish
  • LoggerheadSeaTurtle jpg.jpg
    LoggerheadSeaTurtle jpg.jpg
    Loggerhead sea turtle 24" x 36" Oil on canvas
  • BeautyAndTheBeastjpg.jpg
    BeautyAndTheBeastjpg.jpg
    18 " x 24" Oil on Canvas Sailfish with Hammerhead Shark
  • MakoSquid jpg.jpg
    MakoSquid jpg.jpg
    18" x 24" Oil on canvas Mako Shark eats Squid
  • Marlin chasing Flying fish
    Marlin chasing Flying fish
    24" x 36" Oil on canvas White Marlin chasing a flying fish
  • White Marlin Release
    White Marlin Release
    18" X 36" Oil on Canvas White Marlin release depicts the beauty of light and color as the fish is resting just after being released.
  • White Marlin Sundance
    White Marlin Sundance
    24" x 36" Oil on canvas White Marlin dancing as the morning sun rises. This beautiful fished jumped eleven times while I captured the action with my video camera. It was then carefully released to its home in the Atlantic.
  • Marlin Sunrise
    Marlin Sunrise
    6" x 24" Oil on canvas White Marlin jumping as the sun rises
  • sail chasin' sardines
    sail chasin' sardines
    18" x 24" Oil on canvas Sailfish chasing one of its most sought after foods, the sardine.