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Spirit of Mystery, a Cornish lugger in the Southern Ocean

A copy and details of the painting as completed.

I hope you approve and enjoy. SoM_05.12.12_IMG_4944.JPG_d.JPG

This picture has a few slight modifications is the last blog entry to date.

Pete Goss has said he will co sign our numbered prints and has suggested some thing very special, very Cornish, to be offered with a limited number of these prints  so watch out for details.

My intention as a painter was to try to equal the quality of “Roaring Forties“.

The “Roaring Forties” was painted for Sir Robin Knox-Johnston some time around 1991 and has become my most published image being recently described the the editor of Yachting Monthly as ‘iconic’ and of which Pete Goss, himself no stranger to the great Southern Ocean said it is the one painting that for him sums up the Southern Ocean, it has everything except the unforgettable noise; err not that I forgot the noise, rather that I can’t put it on the Internet.

By the way, ‘Roaring Forties‘ is also in print, numbered edition and co signed by Sir Robin Knox-Johnston and available from the Print Gallery on this web site.

You can purchase a copy as approved by Sir Robin Knox-Johnston and Gordon Frickers with confidence using Paypal.

If that is not collectable what is???

If you are not familiar with the story of Spirit of Mystery and the Cornish Lugger she emulated, ‘Mystery‘ of Penzance, keep a weather eye open for Pete Goss’s book.

Pete Goss has hardly started it and is off to kayak round Tasmania so it may be 12 or 18 months however he has a great story of Cornish courage and endurance to tell, his own and of the original voyage.

Some of ‘the creative process’ is shown here on this blog, not all of which I’ve had time to copy for you.

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I go again from CdM on Monday for 2 weeks via St Malo arriving Portsmouth departing Plymouth and should be back at CdM by the 21st

During the time in Plymouth I expect to show the painting to Pete Goss and possibly supervise the first prints.

The copyright belongs by law to the artist however I hope to find a way to add a useful contribution to Pete’s funds via sales of the prints by way of encouraging his next projects.

For certain I have to see my printer because I also have the beautiful Last Departure’ to put into print for a client.