Concord take off 1969

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Nicely done Gillian

Posted by Romila Datta on Fri 22 Jul 20:39:31

A beautiful aircraft and a lovely painting of it.

Posted by Paul (Dixie) Dean on Sat 23 Jul 08:15:49

What a lovely historical record to have and the Concord is painted so elegantly Gillian.

Posted by Carole Kelly on Sat 23 Jul 10:19:05

Really lovely Gillian. I bet it was wonderful to travel in it.

Posted by Spencer Lambeth-Angell on Sat 23 Jul 14:28:17

Thank you for your kind comments, we used to live by Filton airfield where it was built. At 11am every morning the windows used to shake as it flew over our house. It was a beautiful plane, I never flew in it though.

Posted by Gillian Dix on Sat 23 Jul 15:32:04

Those were the days!

Posted by Heather Love on Sun 24 Jul 13:16:38

Yes doesn’t time fly Heather.

Posted by Gillian Dix on Sun 24 Jul 16:48:15

That is really good

Posted by Michael Myles on Sat 11 Mar 09:09:23

Hang on Studio Wall

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I painted this in watercolour, after seeing it take off in 1969 from Filton runway. It was so impressive.

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Gillian Dix

I am retired and love painting and photography, and have painted a lot of Bristol scenes in pen and wash from my photos and I make cards from all my paintings. For the past two years I have had pure watercolour lessons with David Royle a Bristol Savage ,he has taught me a lot about layers and…

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