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The family connection with the Royal Navy is strong.  My grandfather served in both World Wars being at all the major North Sea actions.  My father-in-law served in WWII in the Mediterranean and Far East and my son serves today. 

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With the happy coincidence that my grandfather’s last ship was HMS Forth and my son had just finished commissioning the latest HMS Forth, I decided to try my hand at capturing images of naval ships using oils.  I began with a series of views of the latest HMS Forth during sea trials.  As a result of the paintings being displayed at the Commissioning Event for HMS Forth in Portsmouth at the end of April,  I was asked by Commodore Craig Wood to look at the ships he had commanded with a view to creating an image of all three at Gibraltar.