The new marine painting of superyachts at dusk is progressing steadily as you can see here.

Still not settled is which yachts to include, open to suggestions, do you have any in mind? (more…)

Regarding Josephine De Saint Seine, artist, friend and painter based at Marseille: by way of helping a fellow artist, painter here is a bit of news…

Josephine prépare 2 expositions, en Mai à la Galerie Mourlot à Marseille, en Novembre à la galerie El Borj à Tunis….. (more…)

Back in a wet damp grey Itzac after a week of adventure in the South of Brittany, I’ll post the story and lots of pop up photos very soon.

Thus, no marine painting last week.

I’d been to the south of Brittany before but some how previously managed to miss the best bits!

My departure was delayed 24 hours by more snow which made the hill out of Itzac impassable even to 4 x 4 ’s. (more…)

Found a new house, great place for marine painting, should I rent it?

South facing with brilliant luminosity, inspirational views and quiet ( half of the property on the right in the attached pop up photo, the other building is a bar restaurant) ).

Been a bit cold here at Itzac of late, I was hoping to depart yesterday but the village hill was impassable with ice and snow.
Here is a photo of neighbouring Compagnac which I passed this morning on my way North North North.

I am thinking quite hard on where I should have a studio after Itzac?

I plan to visit S Brittany including the docks at St Nazaire to look at the shipping industry there and soon I’ll have another look at the Cote d’azur. (more…)

More snow today, it has been bitterly cold for the past 3 days with a North wind, the pop up pic opposite shows a car stuck outside my cottage…

Today’s task is to work on the larger marine painting of the Cattewater, Plymouth by moonlight, a scene showing the  clipper Samuel Plimsoll loading emigrants Australia bound.

The studio space is very limited, I need more space but where and how, any suggestions? (more…)

Several interesting emails today, all 3 enquiries for marine paintings (not marine prints) about Nelson and Trafalgar.
Curiously this makes 3 enquiries for that sort of painting in the past week…
Seems a bit like the old joke about waiting for buses?
Of course, followers of this blog will know, Gordon has a new marine painting on that subject, Nelson at Gibraltar,  in production (hence insert pop up pic here) at this moment and another, a new version of Trafalgar Dawn, almost ready to start. (more…)

Ocean Steam Ship Company of Liverpool, brief history of this important company…

There was a time when to take the “ferry ‘cross the Mersey” meant weaving between Blue Funnel ships.

A detail of this new marine painting is shown here, the complete picture and ships history is below. (more…)

I am still exchanging emails  re the European Parliament Marine Art Exhibition at Brussels.

I have been speaking to Peter Goodwin, Curator and Keeper of HMS Victory and author of numerous definitive books on historic marine subjects.

Peter is very concerned that there are structural problems in Victory caused by poor repairs and the committees responsible are not listening to him …

Thus I was able to bring Peter some moral support and light relief with some marine news. (more…)