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String bag. Poster
by Ray Agius
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String bag. poster by Ray Agius. Our posters are produced on acid-free papers using archival inks to guarantee that they last a lifetime without fading or loss of color. All posters include a 1" white border around the image to allow for future framing and matting, if desired.
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Fairly Swordfish on Anti Submarine patrol.... more
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Fairly Swordfish on Anti Submarine patrol.
Lest We Forget Exhibition.
Society of Arts, De la-Salle Palace, Valletta Malta. October 2016
Builder Armstrong Fairey
10th August 1942
Gibraltar
Space on the aircraft carrier HMS Eagle was extremely restricted. Only sixteen of the 20 defensive Sea Hurricane fighters in the squadron could be embarked, four of them were parked with one wing removed in the forward hanger as spares. On August 11, Eagle left Gibraltar to join with the rest of the Pedestal convoy in the hope they were not detected but just a few hours later, a French civil aircraft flying overhead was heard to be relaying the convoy’s disposition.
The first radar contact with enemy bombers was at 8:15 am the next morning. Five interceptions were by made the defending fighters and one Ju 88 was shot down. As Captain Lachlan D. Mackintosh had Eagle steaming at 13 knots on the starboard leg of it’s anti-submarine zigzag with four of...
About Ray Agius
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...
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Marian Voicu
Stunning art piece! L/F
Ray Agius replied:
Thank you Marian.
David Stasiak
Congratulations!
Ray Agius replied:
Thank you David.
Bill Hubbard
Beautiful painting and intricate detail, Ray. A pleasure to feature.
Ray Agius replied:
Thank you Bill. So kind of you Sir.