1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards, Afghanistan

1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards, Afghanistan
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I should think they were delighted! This is stunnning, and a worthy tribute to the regiment.

A smashing detailed work by a very obvious expertly skilled painter

Thank you, Derek. It was quite a monumental task particularly when it came to the vehicles as those in the field are very different to the prototypes' photos that litter the internet. Working out what was different to the minutest detail was very time consuming, let alone scaling them correctly when the prototype pictures had no measurements or humans by which to gauge them!

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31/03/2015
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This was an official commission from the Regiment and I'm glad to say that they were extremely pleased with it. It was a scene suggested by me and the idea is to make you feel you are standing there watching the meeting. Are you one of the troopers guarding the people from the Regiment? Are you another villager watching? Or are you a member of the Taliban, listening and intending to report all you hear to your commander?

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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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