Mudflats
This is from a sketch of a barge that I made in 1955, when I was at HMS Ganges, on the Shotley Peninsula, Suffolk. Memories of days sailing a short way up the River Orwell, to Pin Mill, for a Banyan (Picnic) on our all too infrequent weekends off! I wish I could say I still have the sketch, but after keeping it in my folder all those years, my granddaughter, (as a baby), got hold of it and that was that!
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John Walker
I have painted most of my life. Childhood Christmases usually found a box of watercolours in my 'stocking'. I left school in 1954 and within 6 months I had enlisted in the Royal Navy, starting at the infamous HMS Ganges, near Shotley, Suffolk. Artists country yes, but no time for such things while…
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