Peter Agardy in the Sun Sentinel!!!

 We are proud of our amazingly talented artist Peter Agardy for his contribution to our community. This is what the Sun Sentinel had to say on April 20,2011.

More than $300,000 in renovations and public art were unveiled last weekend at Boat Club Park as part of ongoing upgrades in the city's parks system.

Artwork by 15-year-old Guy Snell and Peter Agardy, an avid diver and fisherman, and Boynton Beach resident, who said he became personally involved in the project, were placed in the park, 2010 N. Federal Highway.

Agardy was interviewed by phone from Texas, where he is doing a 1,200-square-foot mural, and said after working with the city in the past, he was more than happy to help add his style of art to the park.
"I was born at Bethesda Hospital and have been fishing in the area my whole life," he said. "[I] started off thinking how could I reach the most viewers, encompassing everyone that goes there. From boaters to fisherman and of course the divers off the reefs."

Agardy said the first mural, "Gateway to the Gulfstream," leads the viewer from the inlet to jetty right into the pelicans, the birds, sea turtles and into offshore fishing.

The next mural of a sailfish scene called "Ode to Boynton" took three weeks, Agardy said.

"Red flags are what boaters use to hoist up on line to show they caught and released a sailfish," he said.

He said the sailfish mural shows old fishing practices to the new concept of conservation.

In addition to the art, renovations to the restrooms, retaining wall and landscaping in the park were also done through a $380,000 allocated grant from the Palm Beach County Commission.

Agardy said without the public art guidance of Debby Coles-Dobay, the beatification of the park would not be possible.

"We just tried to find a way that the public art can speak to the park's character and significance," said Coles-Dobay, the city's public art administrator.

She said the two murals speak to what the ocean brings to the city and shows the fishermen, the pelicans, the sea life and the reefs.

"The other mural is a continuation and a depiction of the history and conservation practices that we do today," she said. "Our proximity to the Gulfstream, which affords us great diving and fishing is because Boynton is closest to Gulfstream in Florida."