I must confess I fell in love with this book as soon as I saw the title.
Month: May 2012
Trafalgar Dispatch, HMS Pickle
Ben Ainslie, Britains most renowned sailor?
Commissioning the creative process
Pete Goss, the renowned small craft sailor (look him up on you tube etc) wrote:
I have always admired that painting (“Roaring Forties“, more on that below… was commissioned by Sir Robin Knox-Johnston) as it is one of the few paintings that for me captures the Southern Ocean in a small boat.
I would love a painting as George (Skinner) has suggested but don’t want to start something
that is beyond my budget and ends up dashing all our hopes.
The ship Cutty Sark now open
Plymouth
Arrived at Plymouth, having 22 landscapes mostly French and some prints framed, toured Plymouth and the Salcombe area looking for further subjects. Looking for opportunities to exhibit marine and landscape paintings and this morning working up some sketches.