Steven Andrus

Steve Andrus is an artist, a sailor and a mountaineer. He has sailed from Maine to the Caribbean, on the Intracoastal Waterway and in the open ocean. He has sailed on pleasure cruises and yacht deliveries, in flat seas to seas 60 feet. Images from these voyages and adventures flood his memory and blend with his experience and knowledge as he captures the sea and boats in watercolor.

After two years of teaching in the Outer banks, he opened his own gallery in North Carolina and operated that gallery and then a second gallery for the next 15 years, selling only his original watercolors of boats, harbors, oceans and beaches.

In 1990 Steve’s travels sparked a desire to paint the mountain and high country in and around Taos, New Mexico. He then opened the Andrus gallery and Studio and painted the mountains he lived in. He took to the mountains as he took to the sea, hiking, skiing and eventually becoming a life member of Taos Search and Rescue.

But the sea was never far away and in 2002 he moved again, back to the Outer Banks, to friends, family and the sea. His magnificent watercolors of sailing craft, harbors and marine subjects are now in his new gallery in the Waterfront Shops in downtown Manteo.

Steve paints his impressions, putting the feeling of the whole scene in each watercolor.