Maritime art and artists
The key elements of Anthony Osler’s work are the seas and skies of East Anglia, together with its traditional sailing craft, especially barges and smacks, and the unique light of the region. The results are paintings – mostly watercolours, sometimes oils – often of deceptive simplicity combined with satisfying detail. Born in Ipswich in 1938, [...]
With his ingenious usage, possibly through necessity, of old charts for painting seascapes, Colin Baxter gives us both a flat perspective and an astral overview of his Above: two examples of Colin M Baxter’s ‘Chartworks’ and, left, a piece of his driftwood art. His studio/gallery is at Royal Clarence Yard, Gosport, Hampshire subjects, [...]
Fascinated by aircraft, animals and plants from an early age, Adam trained as a sculptor and then worked as a sculptor and model maker for the Film and TV industry at Shepperton and Pinewood Studios. His work has a surrealist nature in the combination of organic life and sunken aircraft from forgotten wars. His choice [...]
Working successfully in watercolours is the most difficult medium to pull off. When done right it can be subtle yet luscious, vibrant yet calm. Michael Frith is one of those rare artists who successfully allows watercolour the freedom to roam, reining it in at the right moment to describe the shape of a transom or [...]
Tony Parsons understands the sea. Not only is he a keen and lifelong sailor, he’s also a lifeboatman based in Brighton. His work is impressionistic, knowledgeable and extremely competent. His use of colour is vibrant and luscious and he has solved one of the great seascape puzzles: simultaneously representing the three levels of the sea or [...]
Janet Shearer has been painting and sailing all her life. Since moving to Cornwall in 1980 and living so close to the sea, her love of water in all its forms has become the focus of her paintings. She now regularly exhibits her sea paintings in Cornwall and has found an appreciative audience for them. [...]
Inspired by the engraving styles of 1950s countryside books David embarked on an engraving career after time spent as a graphic designer. Using blocks of boxwood felled in West Sussex after the 1987 storms he often uses branch sections cut straight through that retain their rounded shape. As well as being a master of this [...]
This poem, by Robert Louis Stevenson, was published in 1888 when the author and poet was in his 38th year. RLS was steeped in the ways of the sea - he belonged to the famous Scottish Stevenson lighthouse family and voyaged in the Pacific in later life. The poem is written well into the age [...]
