Tweet I had recently the opportunity to connect with the New-York based painter Wayne Mazotta, and interviewed him for MaritimeMatters – Martin Cox Martin Cox: Hello Wayne, I’d like to introduce your art work to the MaritimeMatters readers. Could you tell us about your art background, when you began making…
Tweet Britain’s National Maritime Museum has launched a fundraising campaign to buy the current “Fourth Plinth” artwork, Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle by Yinka Shonibare. Over the past six years the ‘empty’ Fourth Plinth in the northwest corner of Trafalgar Square in London has been home to some of the…
Tweet On July 13, An irreplaceable icon of Britain’s maritime heritage, SS ROBIN, the world’s last remaining steam coaster built in 1890 will return to London on a barge. The public is encouraged to witness history in the making on July 13, 2011 as the world’s last remaining steamcoaster is…
Tweet Continuing my trip down London’s River Thames on board the HURRICANE CLIPPER, (Thames Clippers operates a fleet of twelve luxury high speed catamarans) the next ship that caught my eye, a short distance astern the WELLINGTON, and right before Blackfrairs Bridge is a dark hulled ship, clearly an older vessel…
Tweet Moored at Temple Pier on Victoria Embankment, London just downstream of Waterloo Bridge and not far from the Savoy Hotel, is a white ship from another era. Sporting the name WELLINGTON, the historic ship has been moored on the Thames since 1948. WELLINGTON is the last survivor of the…
Tweet I have been intrigued for some time by the large scale works by New York City based painter Scott Houston Mcbee. My eye was taken by the scale of the works, detail and perfection of his ocean liner elevations. Recently, I had the chance to interview Scott. MC: As…
Tweet “S/S NORWAY: Memories in Imagery” by Devon M. Scott arrived, printed by Lulu, (an online publisher.) The slim book is a square, 8 x 8 inch format, with high gloss cover and coated pages, clearly a product of one who loved his ship. On the welcome page, Devon Scott…
Tweet MaritimeMatters’ co-editor Peter Knego’s home and MidShipCentury venture were featured in the April 23 edition of the Los Angeles Daily News. Writer Sandra Barrera went to Knego’s house in Moorpark, California to interview him amidst some of the fittings rescued from many of the mid-twentieth century’s finest liners and…
Tweet In North Wales, an unusual exhibition has just opened depicting the harsh life on board a wooden vessel used as a training ship for orphaned and delinquent boys. The Gwynedd Museum and Art Gallery in North Wales opened an exhibition on what was known locally as “The Naughty Boys’…
Tweet I started this blog with the aim of marrying the two worlds of interest I straddle: one as a visual artist and the other as an enthusiast of maritime history. As I delved into the origins of maritime art, one name kept coming up, that of Dutch painter Hendrick…
