THE FIGHTING TEMERAIRE
he has crazes..
one of them was boats..
he had toy boats in the bath..
plastic ones with rusted up engines..
in 1995 he goes on holiday to Portugal..
they have lots of brightly coloured..
wooden boats..
everyone knows that..
he goes mad..
charging around the Algarve..
looking for more..
too many are in the water..
or he has to photograph them from the bows..
what he needs is the stern..
the power's in the ass end Mick..
always was..
the best ones are beached..
and bleaching out..
high and dry..
left to rot..
on a trip to Tavira, a sleepy, salty, town..
on a very hot afternoon..
whist on a river cruise he spies..
a pair of old wooden fishing boats..
sunk into the mud..
in the river estuary..
these two above..
are a small oil on canvas..
he usually paints the boats in gouache..
TURNER
painted many boats and marine images..
but no-one calls Turner..
a marine artist..
the artist in residence is just having fun.with one of his many Muses..
he does not see the sadness..
of the passing on of the beautiful wooden boats..
he only loves them..
