The Halifax, the night fighter ace, and the crew that got away
The story was not one I knew about when I started making the picture, which is the opposite of how things normally go.
Flight Artworks pictures published in RAF Memorial Flight Yearbook
Colchester, 2 Jun 2015 As prefigured in a previous post, the Battle of Britain Day ‘big picture’ I was working on in February has duly appeared across two full pages in the Official Royal Air Force Memorial…
First Flight Artworks book published
High Wycombe, 12 May 2015 I am delighted to present my first book drawn from my growing collection of Flight Artworks: 32 pages, available now in printed and e-book versions. It contains captions, commentary and…
Battle of Britain Spitfire for magazine
High Wycombe, 10 May 2015 Apart from all that spring stuff the month of May brought with it issue 16 of History Revealed magazine – whose cover features one of my Flight Artworks aircraft. The Spitfire was…
Turning point: Battle of Britain Day, 15 September 1940
High Wycombe, 16 Feb 2015 My latest picture portrays some 128 separate aircraft on what we now know was a decisive day: 15 September 1940. The picture, which I have been working on for much of…
Remembering Berchtesgaden Lancaster “F for Freddy”
High Wycombe, 30 Jan 2015 There is an interesting story around all the pictures I get asked to make, but it is usually about the original circumstances that are being portrayed. In the case of this…
A close-up look at the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight
High Wycombe, 2 Dec 2014 I was standing next to a World War Two Spitfire while one of the few modern pilots lucky enough to have flown it recounted how the engine had emptied of oil…
Spitfires escorting Lancasters? In daylight?
High Wycombe, 6 Nov 2014 Ever jump to conclusions? What do you make of the picture above: Spitfires escorting Lancasters? (available via this link). A typical first response from people who see it is “Cool picture…
Thanks for the memories
High Wycombe, 24 Apr 2014 When I am making pictures I need to know what various details of an aircraft look like in order to portray it correctly, and for that nothing beats being able to…
A DFC and a shoal of Hurricanes
High Wycombe, 31 Jan 2014 These pictures began life at an airshow. I did not set out with the idea of making a ‘Phoney War’ picture, let alone two – in fact I knew little about…
D-Day pictures set for print publication
High Wycombe, 6 Jan 2014 A Happy New Year. I wonder what 2014 will bring? Well, for one thing, the 70th anniversary on 6 June of D-Day. I have been concentrating in recent months on…
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