Sea Archives - Kev McTomney

The Amazing Seascape Painter Frederick Judd Waugh

Frederick Judd Waugh Severe-looking Victorian gentleman? Possibly. Masterful marine artist? Definitely. I have a look at the amazing seascape painter Frederick Judd Waugh. Seascape, Frederick Judd Waugh As a practicing artist, it’s important to take an interest in the work of other artists, past and present, to see how they may inspire and inform your […]

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Dreadnought

I do enjoy a good dreadnought. This is HMS Barham leading her sisters in battle, a homage to Turner. JMW Turner’s masterpiece, perhaps his greatest work, The Fighting Tremeraire, is a magnificently sentimental painting of an old line-of-battleship being taken to be broken up, a sailing ship being dragged to its doom by a steam-powered tug,