This is a copy of a tapestry entitled " The Prayer For Victory Before The Battle Of Prestonpans" .

The battle was fought in the year 1745 .The Highland army led by "Bonnie Prince Charlie" routed the

government troops led by General Sir John Cope.

This is the second painting I did, acrylics on a linen base. I was pleasantly surprised when an ex resident of Prestonpans bought it at an exhibition.

This painting was used as a cover frontispiece on the 1990 Summer issue of the" East Lothian Life" magazine

 

The Famous" Lancaster Bomber" from World War 2

I painted this picture for my late friend Flt. Lt. James King who flew in these planes during the war.

inset of Jimmy in 1941

 

 

One of my early paintings ,a copy of a master" La Mer Bleu"

 

My first attempt at a steam train

Train  number 2

The Red Boat

An early attempt at a seascape

Waves

Dunbar Harbour Castle Ruins

Port Seton Harbour.No 1

Port Seton Harbour  No  2

The Forth Rail Bridge

Spans the Firth Of Forth between North and South Queensferry in Scotland.

it was opened in March 1890

It is a cantilever bridge one and a half miles long and took seven years to build.

Holiday in Amsterdam 1990

Port Seton Again with Edinburgh and Arthur's Seat in the distance

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More paintings to be added later

I thought I might include this photograph here, it is of the pupils of the Prestonpans Community Art Class which I

attended about 1991.If you recognise anyone in the picture or are in it, please add a comment, I will answer.Or

send me a photo of your painting and I will publish it here for your friends to view.

When I was attending this class I wrote the following poem to show my thoughts on moderen art.

The Dead Of Night

The budding artist has been to classes

Read all the books on old past masters

Gone to lectures by well known teachers,

To art galleries , large and small,

He tries them all

Practised washes in different mediums,

Changed his style to suit his mood,

Copies Rubens and Michel Angelo,

But strive as he might it does no good.

He tries once more a different style,

From what he's seen in all his searching

The gift that these old masters had

Could not be learned from any teaching,

Moderen art would be his field.

So with black paint and a single brush,

He would try to paint just what he feels.

The finished painting has just been sold,

For ten thousand pounds to a connoisseur.

The work of a genuis he's been told,

The budding artist, now rich and famous

Success is his, he got it right,

His subject was the dead of night.

J.K.W.