Sparrow Hawk Women's V-Neck

WWII 1940.
The Italian Reggia Aeronautica tries to bombs the little island of Malta into submission.
On both sides the aircraft participating was outmoded and mostly obsolete. For months the Savoia Marchetti bombers attacked almost impervious to the 3 slow biplanes that was the only airborne defence of the country.

Finally, some Hawker Hurricane fighters were flown off a carrier and within hours changed the whole situation. With 8 X 0.303" machine-guns the tables were turned on the merciless enemies...well at least temporally.

Watercolour
16" X 12"

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...