Desert camouflage Spitfire EN152
My latest picture features a dusty, desert-coloured Spitfire IXc – and a yellow herring.
My latest picture features a dusty, desert-coloured Spitfire IXc – and a yellow herring.
The new paint scheme for the RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Spitfire TE311 features a Polish boxing bulldog nose art: one of several similar emblems.
The story was not one I knew about when I started making the picture, which is the opposite of how things normally go.
My depiction of P-51 ace Bud Anderson’s high altitude roller coaster dogfight victory.
The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight’s Lancaster, PA474, will have not one but two new paint schemes following its winter service.
Colchester, 7 September 2016 It was a day of huge engagements involving hundreds of aircraft, but time and again it broke down into deadly individual aerial combat encounters. During the Battle of Britain, RAF Fighter…
Two Short Stirlings ran into flak mine laying off Brittany in 1944: this one came back.
When was the last time an RAF aircraft was shot down by an enemy in an air-to-air engagement?
I usually learn something while making a picture, to a greater or lesser extent. Greater, in the case of my most recently finished RAF Halifax depiction.
My latest Flight Artworks picture deals with the fraught subject for Battle of Britain pilots of being shot down in the English Channel.
New picture portrays the astonishing moment an RAF pilot flew his Hawker Hunter jet through the central span of Tower Bridge in London.
If things have seemed serenely quiet lately, rest assured I have been paddling furiously below the waterline.
We all know that famous Dambusters scene, right? 617 Squadron practising … on a lake in flat countryside in Essex.
The new RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Visitor Guide plops on to my doormat containing one of my pictures: silver Spitfire PS852.
If you have never flown in a tail dragger, let alone an open cockpit one, try a Tiger Moth. You will love it.
Colchester, 21 September 2015 You will know already that you can buy aviation prints through the Flight Artworks website at www.flightartworks.com but I also welcome enquiries from publishers who are interested in using my work.…
Colchester, 15 September 2015 The house and office move mentioned in the Preface to my first book was completed relatively painlessly as these things go, although the unpacking and decluttering took longer than I had…
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…
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…
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…