Joe Ebberwein has always had an appreciation of beautiful art and relished his time at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Chicago Art Institute, or the Uffizi in Florence. Painting began as a hobby for him and soon became a passion when he began lessons in the home of a friend who had graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design. He discovered the satisfaction of taking a blank, harsh white canvas and filling it with shapes and shades of color, capturing the emotion of a beautiful ocean sunset, marsh landscape or a field of flowers.