Classic Boat Prizewinner at the Royal Society of Marine Artists Exhibition Mall Galleries 2020

October saw the Royal Society of Marine Artists Exhibition at the Mall Galleries in London, I was lucky enough to get two paintings into the show this year. 

The day before the show opened I received an email informing me that I had won a prize with one of my pieces "A Breeze on the Blackwater". I was delighted just to get work into the show, even more surprised to find two of my three submissions had made it into the exhibition. So a prize was very much the cherry on top!

A Breeze on the Blackwater

America's Cup 2003 Painting Commission

A recent commission to paint the GBR entry to the 2003 America's Cup was a very interesting journey so I felt I would share some of the stages on the way to the final piece.

My client was very clear in his requirements, I had a list of what needed to be included. Thinking forward to the final piece I needed to determine which elements of the requirements took precedence.

A series of pencil sketches refined the most likely routes for an action packed view which I could translate into a impactful painting.

From this I produced five colour sketches (I don't usually do more than three visuals) but in this case I was not sure what my client was expecting to see - and I wanted to experiment.

Initial sketches and a couple of quick watercolour visuals

Visual 1

Visual 2

Visual3

Visual 4

Visual 5

The final artwork

Steamships and sail

Commissioned work has rather taken up my time recently, given the unusual times we are living through and the diminished state of the worlds economy I am grateful for the work.

Prior to the latest commission I had completed a number of marine paintings in the hope that this years exhibition season might not be completely eliminated. More a hope than an expectation at the present time.

Two of the works are of steam merchant ships in the 1920s based of photographic records from the family archive. They are effectively a pair in that they depict a ship taking on timbers in Canada and discharging the cargo in Boston harbour. The others are sailing vessels all of the works are painted in acrylic on stretched canvas.

Genoa Bay Vancouver

Timber for Boston 1924

A Breeze on the Blackwater

Running before the storm

Latest work

I have neglected the post for quite some time so I am not determined to post on a more regular basis. Here are a few pieces of my recent marine work, largely in acrylic but with a few in oil and one watercolour.

All the work is for sale on my website:

https://www.kevinclarkson.co.uk

Racing on the Blackwater (acrylic)

Drying Sails (Acrylic)

The stern escort ((Acrylic)

San Francisco Bay (Acrylic)

St Malo Summer (Acrylic)

Boats on the Seine (Oil)

Christchurch harbour (Oil)

Guerin Brittany (Oil)

HMS President (Oil)

RMS Aquitania in floating Dock (Acrylic)

Tower Bridge 1930 (Watercolour)