60 x 85cm
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Painting of Cardiff Bay in Autumn

A large scale (A1) painting about Cardiff Bay in muted tones and featuring both Penarth Marina and Penarth Esplanade and Pier. The ship at the bottom right represents the Shaw Savill Lines "Drina" on which my family sailed to South America in the seventies - leaving me in Cardiff. Another of my Dad’s ships, Furness Withy’s "S.S. Pacific Northwest" can be seen in the Bute dock behind the Wales Millennium Centre. Ships, a common theme in my paintings represent homecoming as the family is once again complete.

Note that the Norwegian Church is in its original position at Bute West Dock. The tug which seems to be plonked onto dry land was an exhibit of the Industrial and Maritime Museum, which stood on that site, - likewise the yellow Westland Whirlwind helicopter. The Museum has since relocated to Swansea.

Toy cars travel Cardiff’s roads. A toy lorry leaves the brewery. The tug, helicopter and the blue crane look like toys, as do the boats in the bay.

Cardiff Castle pulls all two coaches of the Red Dragon as the express hurtles toward London. Two coaches was all I had but I loved that train. I still have it but no track on which to run. I wonder if it still works?