John planning the day's sailing on the Norfolk Broads. The tender is Gunter rigged and plywood - the sloop a 23ft long gaff rigged beauty in Mahogany.
 Art & Illustration by John & Sue Ridyard
Welcome to this brief introduction to our artwork, with examples of illustrations made for books and partworks as well as fine art drawings and paintings commissioned by and for individuals.
We have also included some works we have made just to please ourselves.
There are sections devoted to the Wildlife of Britain Encylopeadia, Illlustrations of Aircraft, Susan's Greetings Card Designs, Marine paintings, House portraits and Buildings and our facsimile reprints of rare publications relating to the early years of aviation.
Enquiries regarding an illustration or a painting of any subject, are most welcome.
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'He's Cool' one of several figure paintings celebrating youth and body language. These young people are in The Light, an entertainment and retail centre in Leeds Yorkshire England. 'He's Cool', A watercolour in which young people communicate with their body language as they pass through a city centre shopping mall in Leeds, Yorkshire. England.
John's scratch built 1/8th scale model 1910 Hanriot Monoplane in flight.
John's scale model of the 1910 Hanriot Monoplane. Hubert Oxley, who died in a tragic air accident at Filey in 1912, learned to fly on this type of aircraft at the Hanriot school at Brooklands in 1911
Go to PUBLICATIONS  for details of five rare historic documents relating to the Pioneers of Aviation, now carefully re-published in  facsimile by us. They including the Blackburn Aeroplane Co., Catalogue for 1911, B.C. Hucks's 1914 Aerobatics programme and Souvenir and The Aerial Tourist by B C Hucks.
An FA18 fighter aircraft takes off from an Aircraft carrier an illustration for Harper Collins
One of many illustrations of the F/A 18 Fighter Aircraft in action, illustrated for and published by Harper Collins/Janes of London.


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John's watercolour:- The harbour at Whitby in North Yorkshire with the ruined abbey,founded by abbess St. Hilda c. AD 507
John has painted many fine art watercolours with a sea and ships flavour, this one is of the harbour and dry dock at Whitby in North Yorkshire. England.
A pencil drawing of a Buck Rabit, drawn for and published in the Wildlife of Britain.The reference was John's own video footage. A Buck Rabbit stretching. One of many animal subjects, researched, found, captured on video and then drawn in pencil by John for inclusion in the 'Wildlife of Britain' Partwork Encyclopaedia.
 
Click on WILDLIFE for more about the Wildlife of Britain and John's sequence illustrations of a Barn Owl hunting, a Buck Rabbit and one of John's Red Squirrel.sequence drawings
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