It’s Sunday so here we go for “B I Sunday”

Marine art is firmly back in my sights.
The worst of the ‘flying dust and debris’ caused by my move to ‘winter quarters’, disruption caused by returning to Plymouth to research for Mayflower 400 / 2020 has settled.
Here we go charting in more senses than one, the progress of my new, large, complex  marine painting “B I Sunday“. The making of this painting is already quite an adventure which has included an invitation to a wedding in Mombasa on the 12 th of December.

B I Sunday‘ will show the port of Mombasa, Kenya on a unique day when every wharf was occupied by ships of the same company, the British India Steam Navigation Company

Port of Kilindini, Mombassa, detail from a 1971 Admiralty chart
Port of Kilindini, Mombassa, detail from a 1971 Admiralty chart
Yesterday morning having driven for the second time in a week to Roche Bernard to chase up ‘my’ plumber I retire to find inspiration, to express some ideas I have for “B I Sunday” in a cafe at Roche Bernard that I have adopted and where they seem to have adopted me. Cafe a Roche Bernard IMG_5501
I have been thinking of ways to do justice to “B I Sunday”.

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News of a ‘Flying P’

I learned today “Peking”, a large four-masted barque (as opposed to a ‘ship’), a steel ‘windjammer’, so called because of her vast spread of sail is scheduled to return from New York City to its home country after the German government allocated 30 million euros to make the journey possible.

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Friends, Plymouth

A busy day of surprises in Plymouth. More progress with ‘The Mayflower’, more information about Plymouth circa 1620 is emerging, what did the port really look like?
Better, I had the pleasure of time with three very special ‘Plymouth’ friends.

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