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HB Pencil, pen and Ink-wash

12"X 18" 170 g/m Velum

Oil tanker from WWII "Pedestal" Convoy entering Malta's Grand harbour.

Broken backed, kept afloat by 2 ships strapped to it, bombs, torpedo and an enemy aircraft crashed on it, it limpes in at 2 knots after unimaginable air attacks.

Copied from original wartime photograph, minutely modified.

I am first and foremost a Gemini. My feet are placed precariously in several camps and constantly and easily cross over many boundaries. My working life spanned 3 decades and embraced 3 continents. Some of my time was spent in the British Royal Navy and much of it in the International Automotive Industry. 
 An Engineer and Designer is automatically a keen observer of life and human nature and from that I take much inspiration for my art. I do not call myself just an artist but rather a purveyor, documenter and expositor of life, from which my art bleeds and sometimes gushes forth! 
My skills and qualifications have been honed over decades, influenced by both current and long dead artists., Some of those with whom I...