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VIGNETTES A Sea Change DANIELLE PERRY PAINTS A LIFE AT SEA AS CHEF AND ARTIST BY M. Linda Lee Perry draws inspiration from the ocean. Pictured here with her painting Bayou Blues. (ABOVE) Rothschild and his mother, Lady Serena Rothschild. Perry refers to the sailing trip she took with them through the Mediterranean as "the peak of my chef career." While Perry enjoys the creativity of cooking, it's art that really foats her boat. "I consider myself an artist frst," she states. Even so, painting remained a hobby until 2008, when Perry was in a serious motorcycle accident. Laid up recovering for fve months, she took the opportunity to get serious about her art. In Perry's extensive portfolio, tropical surroundings inform her serene canvases with the blues of ocean and sky, and sun-washed landscapes splashed with beaches and graceful palms. She paints in acrylics from observation and describes her style as representational. Watery refections inspire much of her work, which glows with rich, transparent tones. "I start with the darkest hues and Watery reflections inspire much of her work, which glows with rich, transparent tones 3O Tempus-Magazine.com . Fall 2013 PHOTOGRAPHY BY GEORGE QUIROGAM ART AND THE SEA have always been Danielle Perry's passions. Trained as a graphic artist, the Quebec City native worked her way up to a job as creative director with an ad agency in Montreal. It was this position that landed her in Fort Lauderdale in 1998, where Perry realized her longtime dream of living in the tropics. When she wasn't working, Perry spent her time sailing to the Bahamas and capturing her travels on canvas. Three years later, the up-and-coming artist met a yacht captain and parlayed her childhood experience sailing on her father's Chris-Craft into delivering boats to and from the Caribbean and Mediterranean. Eventually she was asked to cook aboard chartered trips, a job she hesitated to accept. "I'm a good cook," Perry admits, "but not a trained chef." Turns out, she was a natural. As a chef she tripled her salary, and put her art on the aft burner. Perry has worked as a freelance private yacht chef for over twelve years now. This accidental chef spends weeks at sea, where coping with the vagaries of the ocean and catering to passengers' demands eat up most of her time. "I'm under pressure to perform at a high level," Perry says. "These yachts are like fve-star hotels." A case in point is the 107-foot Wally B she spent a month aboard two summers ago as chef for British-born fnancier Nathaniel "Nat"