A civic reception, the ghost of Salty Cyril and a coat of arms

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Chester in Cheshire, North West England, a port since Roman times (Chester meaning a camp or fort) represents a perfect example of a Victorian River port.

The Port of Chester (1863) contains the important elements of commerce from that period. This painting is important as a significant piece of art of real historical worth because it faithfully shows the striking contrast between a bygone way of life, and our modern world.

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“Liberty ship, North Atlantic Winter”, How and why I collected this Liberty ship info…
I discovered Liberty ships some times sank. I remembered some of the “old boys” pored scorn on Liberty ships. (more…)

Liberty ships confounded the critics, served successfully in all theatres of the war and world wide long after, exceeding all expectations, a rare achievement and certainly helped defeat the Axis powers.

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Kim Stephens died before he could enjoy his painting as shown on http://www.frickers.co.uk/marine-art/kim_stephens.html.

Morwhenna commissioned me saying they had been meaning to commission a
painting. Kim had died, she would like to carry out his wish.

This charming and very unusual marine painting of a Dart class cat, a watercolour, this week end caused a  friend of many years to get in touch.

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Michael Baker, my web master is gradually transferring the “Further reading” pages to this blog.

This will make editing and updating pages easier so if you spot something out of date kindly let us know, thank you. (more…)

“The frigate Condell marine painting went down a real treat. The Chileans were very impressed and Capt Cruz the commanding officer was over the moon and said he was going to have it welded to the wardroom bulkhead so none of the Admirals, and there were six Chilean Admirals present, could get their fingers on it!” wrote Captain John Simkins a director, the Chief Executive, Disposal Services Agency of the Ministry of Defence after the presentation of the completed piece of marine art commission .

The origin, this marine painting  was commissioned by (more…)

While not a marine painting this is certainly from the photos I have seen, marine model!
A rare chance to acquire a high quality marine model as in large ship model.   (more…)

Revitalised over the past few months: an Olympic marine painting, rarer, a marine portrait.
Ironically, this old and forgotten painting  will probably become  my most important painting this year?

So sorry I can’t show you the entire of this dynamic picture – yet.
This marine painting, a portrait, has just had a major upgrade to my latest standard.  
My question is how to use this completely unique marine portrait to do the BOA, RYA and me the most good? (more…)

Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh, remains unchanged, for the moment. 

However, much around him has changed. (more…)

While in Cannes on the cote d’azur sussing the super yachts,  I spotted Sarafsa, the 3,250 ish ton super yacht – or is it superyacht?  

As Sarafsa is now thoroughly in the public domain here are a couple of photos snapped as my boat passed Sarafsa.   (more…)