26 Engineer Regiment, Sangin, Afghanistan
This was an official commission from the Regiment and has been exhibited at the Mall Galleries where the Prince of Wales showed great interest in it. It shows the moment of explosion when the soldiers are breaching the outer wall to a compound or village. The dust in Afghanistan is said to be finer than talcum powder and a real problem. The Regiment wanted as much dust as possible 'boiling' in the air but I had to insist on a stop at a certain point or, as I told them, it would look like a flock of galloping sheep.
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Alix Baker
After art school in London I spent several years in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Busy jobs suspended my art side and eventually I left to devote more time to it. For the greater part of my art career I was one of the UK's leading military artists specialising in military dress through theā¦
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