Aviation Art All paintings are on canvas unless otherwise stated. Please click on an image for title and dimensions. All sizes are approximate. ‘Now the gloves are Off!’ Oil on canvas 80 x 90cm. This painting depicts the events of a specific day during the Battle of Britain - Friday, 16th August, 1940. It is 12.40 hrs, 18,000 feet above the south coast of England, to the east of Selsey. In the background the Isle of Wight and the Solent are just visible. RAF Hurricanes from 601 squadron based at Tangmere have been sent to climb to intercept formations of enemy fighters high above the Isle of White area but on the way see a large group of Stukas below them heading towards Tangmere. Without waiting for specific instructions to attack the Stukas the Hurricanes dived on them. At this point the Stukas are about a minute and a half from Tangmere and beginning to form attack formations as they approach the coast. This fierce and determined attacking force pressed on despite aggressive opposition from 601 Squadron, but in the complex and deadly frenzy that followed the Germans came off worst, losing about a dozen Stukas to 601 squadron, and yet more to other RAF Squadrons active in the combat area. Tangmere airfield received a bad mauling that day but remained operational, mainly thanks to the brave defensive onslaught from the RAF’s fighters. ‘Jubilee’ A painting showing the Queen’s golden jubilee of 2002 where there was a flypast of Concorde and the Red Arrows. This large painting is packed full of fine detail and was heavily researched to ensure that everything in it is accurate. This painting took over 2000 hours of work spread over four years. I made high-quality limited edition prints of this painting that were signed by all the pilots who flew in this flypast. 137 x 147.5 cm ‘Bruised but not beaten’. An Avro Lancaster returning home. 102 x 102 cm‘Strutting Peacocks’. Showing four Albatros fighter aircraft from the colourful and notorious ‘Jasta 5’ squadron in 1917. 76 x 76 cm‘Distant Travellers 2’. Concorde at its maximum flying height of over eleven miles. 90 x 90 cm‘Above the barrage’ Showing a lone and vulnerable ‘RE.8’ biplane above the barrage at the Battle of Arras in May 1917. 50 x 71 cm‘Blue Yonder’. A Spitfire of the RAF’s Photo Reconnaissance Unit leaving the safety of the English coast on its way to Normandy in 1944. 71 x 92 cm‘The Last Patrol’. Three SE.5a biplanes of the newly formed RAF in 1918. 45 x 60 cm‘Cold War Thunder’. The majestic Avro Vulcan ‘XH558’ roars steep and low making the ground shake. 127 x 96.5 cm ‘Him or me, so be it!’. The maverick French pilot André Dorme in his Nieuport 17 destroying a German Albatros D.II in the autumn of 1916. 46 x 55 cm‘Far from Home’. The Mk.II Spitfire of the brave Polish pilot Marcin Markowiak who was indeed far from home, and never made it back there, being killed in action in 1941. 71 x 87 cm‘The Mission’. A F-117 aircraft flown by Col. Alton Whitley Jnr about to cross the Iraqi coast on his way to bomb Baghdad at the start of the first gulf War of 1991. 120 x 120 cm‘Closing In’. A painting showing a Messerschmitt 110C and a MkI Hurricane in the Battle of Britain. 76 x 95 cm‘Chasing the Sunset’. Concorde flew faster than the revolving of the earth so when flying east to west it could see the sun rise in the west! 76 x 101.5 cm‘Riders on the Storm’. F-4E Phantoms above Vietnam. 84 x 101 cm
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