Fishing Vessel on the floating dock at Parkol Marine, Whitby Some of John’s marine watercolours
Like most Englishmen I am drawn to the sea, ships and the working vessels found there, even though my experience of hands on sailing is confined to RYA courses and passage making associated with Tall Ship events. Qualifications? RYA Competent Crew - this and involvement in the production of a sailing manual, means that few items of rigging remain a mystery to me, and I can imagining myself aboard the subjects of my paintings and taking them to sea .   Hope you like the pictures 

Left:     A MFV undergoing a refit in Parkol Marine’s floating dock at Whitby, overlooked by St Hilda's Abbey.
Below: The timeless figure in some paintings is Karen Burdell - an actor who 'just loves dancing in the sea'
Scarborough about 1880 with trading vessels beached for maintainance
Sailing vessels run ashore on the soft sand of South Bay Scarborough, based on a photograph taken about 1885
 Karen Burdell at Scarborough Unloading onto the beach at Runswick Bay on the Yorkshire Coast
A sturdy trading ketch unloading at  Runswick Bay - an imagined scene based on present day an historical events.
Sorry all these paintings are SOLD.
 A Trading Ketch beached to unload at Scarborough about 1900
 A ketch run ashore at high tide and left high and dry by the falling tide. A common practice in the days of sail to facilitate maintainance and handling of cargo.
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