“Intense searching for uncommon birds can be exhausting. No surprise, then, that one morning in Lima, while idling between field trips looking for curassows and their relations, I thought of a new and different theme. I have been impressed since long ago by objects connected with seafaring – anchors and cables, derricks and navigation buoys, the whole furniture of shipping as well as the ships themselves. Just as the declining populations of large birds had drawn my attention, so did redundant maritime objects, some of them only just surviving in use, others redundant and lying about waiting to go to the scrap yard. To me they made irresistible subjects, which I arranged on my canvases from many drawings. They are memorials to an age of splendid industrial design, and to a magnificent period in the history of shipping.”
Coded signal 38 x 30 in. (£3,000)Windlass, 38 x 30 in. (£3,000)Unloading a mine (very large, oil on canvas) (£4,500)Marine assemblage with cog, large, oil on canvas (£3,000)Stern of ship, large, oil on canvas (£3,000)Hook and buoy, large, oil on canvas (£3,000)Machinery detail, large, oil on canvas (£3,000)Marine assemblage with block (Large, oil on canvas) (£3,000)Marine assemblage with black and white funnel (Large, oil on canvas) (£3,000)Marine assemblage with anchor (Large, oil on canvas) (£3,000)Marine assemblage (Large, oil on canvas) (£3,000)Marine assemblage with yellow oil drum (Large, oil on canvas) (£3,000)Marine assemblage with sailboat (Large, oil on canvas) (£3,000)Marine assemblage with black and red funnel (Large, oil on canvas) (£3,000)Marine assemblage with aeroplane (Large, oil on canvas) (£3,000)Marine assemblage with cannon (Large, oil on canvas) (£3,000)Marine assemblage with black and white funnels and anchor (Large, oil on canvas) (£3,000)Marine assemblage with green buoy and light (Large, oil on canvas) (£3,000)Marine assemblage with block and hooks (Large, oil on canvas) (£3,000)EPAV, oil on canvas (very large) (£4,500)Red and white with double bass, oil on canvas (very large) (£4,500)Marine assemblage with submarines (Medium, oil on canvas) (£3,000)LX-51 (large, oil on canvas) (£3,000)Marine assemblage with middle ground buoy, 46 x 62 in. (£4,500)Naval railyard 38 x 30 inches (£3,000)
