Morris Island Light

"Morris Island Light"

Krys Pettit

Watercolor on Paper

Morris Island Light, decommissioned and eroding, still manages to stand tall on what remains of Morris Island north of Folly Beach in South Carolina.  Once secure on an island with buildings and shelter for the lighthouse keeper and a family, jetties constructed in the late 1800’s began a slow, eroding death of the land mass that supported it.  Constructed in 1876 and eventually decommissioned in 1962 is still stirs the imagination and touches artists, lighthouse fanatics and vanguards of historic preservation.  I have painted many lighthouses and the one I cannot stand next to is the one that intrigues me the most – lonely, abandoned, and at some point possibly being claimed by the sea it observed for some many decades..
Learn about the efforts to keep this chapter lighthouse and Southern history from completely disappearing:
http://www.savethelight.org/.