High And Dry
Oils. 20 x 24 inches. The picture started life as a 30 x 20 inch canvas, but it looked a little uninteresting at that size, so I resized. It turned out to be a venture into almost monochrome. It sold at my very first exhibition. I was inspired by Rowland Hilder; who influenced me most in painting skies. Paint a sky per day, he advised! For this painting I used an old sketch of a craft I saw near Pin Mill when I was at HMS Ganges.
About the Artist
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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