A giant among restorations
[ad#intheboatshed-post] Prepare to be awed! Lulworth is the largest gaff cutter afloat today, with a length of 46.30m (152ft) and a mast as high as a 17-floor apartment block. She is also widely...
View ArticleMore of Roger Davies’ classic marine paintings
To bookmark a post, double-click on the headline, let the post open, and bookmark Roger Davies has been a marine artist for 30-odd years, although he claims it wasn’t a conscious decision – rather,...
View ArticleSmell the Sea, Feel the Breeze exhibition of paintings at Falmouth gallery
Running for Home by Charles Napier Hemy, one of the paintings at the Feel the Breeze exhibition. Click for full-size image The same painting at 1600, 1280 and 1024 pixels across – choose a size for...
View ArticleAmerican maritime artist John P Benson celebrated in a new book
[ad#intheboatshed-post] Paintings by John P Benson – click on each for a larger photo. The images that were here earlier are now linked to thumbnails below John Prentis Benson – American Marine Artist,...
View ArticleCinque Ports watercolours by Jack Merriot
[ad#intheboatshed-post] The Cinque Port of Hythe The Cinque Port of Sandwich We have some jolly railwayiana this morning. High-class award-winning amateur boatbuilder, unassuming Sage of the Little...
View ArticleArtist seeks help – she needs rusty ships in dried-out-looking seas
[ad#intheboatshed-post] Ship in the dried out Aral Sea, photographed by Staeker, and taken from the Wikimedia We’ve just received this intriguing and unusual request from art student Mary Wharmby. Can...
View ArticleRowland Hilder, marine artist
[ad#intheboatshed-post] Untitled watercolour by Rowland Hilder As someone who lives in the Low Weald of Kent, I think of Rowland Hilder as a painter of landscapes that look as if they portray the...
View ArticleHolmes of the Humber explained
[June 2011 - This book is now available again after selling out less than a year after publication.] Holmes of the Humber is a new book by long-standing Humber Yawl Club member Tony Watts. But just...
View ArticleHolmes of the Humber: a review
Eel, drawn by her skipper and designer, George Holmes [June 2011 - This book is now available again after selling out less than a year after publication.] Now that my copy has arrived, Tony Watts’...
View ArticleBeale Park Boat Show: artist Claudia Myatt, Starfish Books and a coracle
Artist and author Claudia Myatt has written to say she’ll be at the Beale Park Boat Show (10-12 June), where it seems her time will be divided between manning her Starfish Books stand, and messing...
View ArticleSan Francisco artist Lawrence LaBianca uses the Light Trow in his work
California artist Lawrence LaBianca has been using the hull of my Light Trow design in his artwork, we were delighted to learn this morning. Lawrence got in touch this morning to tell us that he’s...
View ArticleClaudia Myatt’s six top tips for maritime artists
Claudia Myatt is a talented and highly effective maritime artist who knows how to conjure up a form in a few sweet lines – see some samples of her work here. Her site also has a nice download of...
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