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C S Forester

The author C S Forester has a lot to answer for !
I’ve just added my name to the “Horatio Hornblower Appreciation Society” on Facebook.

These days people say I am a marine artist. 

HMS Pickle
I Have Urgent Dispatches (HMS Pickle)
 
I first encountered Forester’s most famous character, Mr. Horatio
Hornblower when as a bored 13 year old my dear Dad tossed a book to me saying, here, read this, I read it years ago and enjoyed it.
The book, you may have guessed by now, was ‘Midshipman Hornblower’.
Hooked, I soon devoured all the C S Forester books I could find in our local public library. 

Frigates,
Frigates, Maidstone V Lion
There are quite a number of movies and TV series based on C S Forester books, Horatio Hornblower, based on “The Captain”, that stars Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo; ‘The Pride and the Passion’ based on ‘The Gun’ and starring Cary Grant, Sophia Loren and Frank Sinatra …
 
Not long after I found myself in Norfolk, East Anglia, in a tiny very old lug sail dinghy that an artist friend of my Dad, the portrait painter Gerry de Rose who was also destined to be a major and beneficial influence on my life, had won the previous night, gambling with the coxwain of the Wells lifeboat.
 

My condition worsened, a few years later I found myself with one of my teachers from Maidstone College of art, Martin Simmonds, as a dinner guest to a Royal Navy / Society of Nautical Research silver service buffet on board HMS Victory

Dockyard 400
My situation continues to worsen to this very day …
H M Sloop Racehorse
 
Here are a couple of examples of my marine painting (I also paint landscapes and sometimes portraits), you can if you wish find more by Googling for my web sites.
 
C S Forester has a LOT to answer for, I wonder what Mr H. Hornblower would say about this? 

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