Please be aware that the crude images shown here which were taken with an iPhone do not adequately represent the quality of the actual paintings.

Acrylics

Undersea Fantasy a diptych set or separate 24x18 each by Virginia A. Trahan 2023

Beware the Lee Shore a diptych set or separate by Charles R. Trahan 2024

Ambush at Twelve Mile Swamp (St. Augustine)24x18 by Virginia A. Trahan 2024

Displayed in STAA Spring Member Show

Twelve-Mile Swamp, named for its distance from St. Augustine, is a forbidding area of cypress bogs and palmetto thickets. Through this wilderness on the evening of 11 September 1812, passed a column of 20 Marines and Georgia militiamen, led by Marine Captain John Williams, a 47-year-old Virginian. His mission was to escort a pair of supply wagons from the main camp of the Patriot Army near St. Augustine to the blockhouse on Davis Creek, about 22 miles. Williams and his detachment had come to East Florida to join an expedition intent on annexing the Spanish province, out of fears that the British would use Florida as an advance base for an invasion, and that escaped slaves would inspire insurrection in the southern states. The Marines were uneasy as they eyed the surrounding thickets. Bands of armed Seminole Indians and runaway slaves were active in the area. Anxious to reach Davis Creek before sunset, they hurried the supply wagons through the swamp as twilight deepened. Suddenly, the woods along the trail erupted with a blaze of musket fire as a large band of Indians and blacks fired a pointblank volley into the column. Williams, his sergeant, and the lead team of horses are downed by the first shots. Williams' Marines took up defensive positions along the trail and returned fire. The badly wounded Captain Williams watched as Captain Tomlinson Fort took over command, exhorting the troops to continue the fight until the last cartridge. At length, he too was wounded and ordered a retreat further into the swamp. As the fighting ended, the enemy band destroyed one wagon and drove the other off. Part of the detachment made its way to the blockhouse, while Williams hid himself among the palmetto thickets. The next morning, a rescue force found the Marine captain, left arm and right leg broken, and his right arm, left leg, and abdomen pierced by musket fire. Searching further, they found six more wounded in the brush, in addition to Williams' sergeant, stripped and scalped. “You may expect,” Williams wrote four days later, “that I am in a dreadful situation, tho' I yet hope I shall recover in a few months.” Williams died on 29 September. The ambush in Twelve-Mile Swamp and Marine Captain John Williams' subsequent death brought an end to an ill-conceived American scheme to annex Spanish East Florida by force.

                                                                                                                                                            El Vaquero by Charles R. Trahan 2024 UNAVAILABLE

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Displayed at the STAA Faces and Figures exhibit

Flagler College (St. Augustine) 30x20 by Virginia A. Trahan 2025

Displayed at the STAA Fantastic Florida exhibit

Coral Wonder a diptych set or separate 18x18 ea. by Virginia A. Trahan 2025

                          Sea turtles (painted on rain barrels) by Charles R. Trahan 2023 GIFTED

           Undersea Sentry by Virginia A. Trahan 2025 SOLD

Lighthouse and Rough Seas a diptych set by Charles and Virginia Trahan circa 2015 NOT FOR SALE

Colorful Fish 18x18 by Virginia A. Trahan 2026

Oils

Spider Boy 20x25 by Virginia A. Trahan 2024

Displayed in STAAA Faces and Figures exhibit

Watercolor

Beached Rowboat 13x10 by Virginia 2023 SOLD

Bridge of Lions (Saint Augustine) by Virginia 2025 SOLD

Displayed in STAAA Here and There exhibit

Flamingos in the Mist 13x10 by Virginia A. Trahan 2023

     Florida Morning by Virginia A. Trahan 2024 COMMISSIONED

My Friend, Me and the Sea by Virginia A. Trahan 2025 SOLD

                                                                                                                                                        Displayed in the STAA Out of Place exhibit

Old Marina 12x12 by Virginia A. Trahan 2023 SOLD

Florida Morning 10x13 by Virginia A. Trahan 2026

Critter Collection

Green Going Ashore by Charles R. Trahan 2025 SOLD

                               3-D effect with real sand

                                                Displayed in the STAA Miniature Marvels exhibit

Sea Turtle Reef a diptych set or separate by Virginia A. Trahan 2026 20x16

American Alligator 2026 by Charles R. Trahan 20x16

Honorable mention  in TARAVARNA 2026 13th Animal International Art Competition 

Reflection Collection

                                                                                                                                                                  3-D effect with read sand and string-for-line

Three Rowboats by Charles R. Trahan 2025