Artists Harbour goes out on the road on Sunday, July 1st as part of the Southsea festivities in Portsmouth.

We will be exhibiting at the Southsea Art Fair in the Southsea town centre shopping precinct alongside many other stalls manned by local artists and other galleries.

If the forecast possible rain clears our stand in Palmerston Road will be outside Boots the Chemist. If it rains the Fair may still go on but our stand could be under awnings somewhere else in the precinct. Either way if it’s not rained off we will be there 9 am to mid-afternoon we will be displaying a wide range of local prints and local cards, many of which cannot be seen anywhere else, plus a range of other artworks, some at sale price.

Two fine local artists, Chris N. Wood and Maureen Flaherty, will be on our stand, painting new works and happy to discuss art with passers-by. Some of their existing paintings of Southsea and Old Portsmouth will also be on show.

We hope our many local friends and supporters will come along to see us - and tell all your friends, families and neighbours to come too.

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HMS Illustrious, then flagship of the Royal Navy, sails out of Portsmouth Harbour into the Solent, off the coast of Southsea silhouetted against the afternoon sun of summer, 2005.
In the centre of the coastline can be seen the outline of the rollercoaster at the Clarence Pier funfair and on the right the tower of Portsmouth’s historic Anglican Cathedral, St. Thomas’s.
Just above the tower Spitbank Fort juts out of the water, continuing its eternal vigilance against Napoleon III’s possible invasion.
Spitbank and the three other forts (also visible further out) were known as “Palmerston’s Follies” after the Newport Isle of Wight Member of Parliament who as British Prime Minister had them built between 1865 and 1880 as part of a chain of defences against the French, encircling Portsmouth by sea and land.

This picture is now available as a print for £34.99 or as a greeting card for £1.49 on our webshop.

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8 new prints from local artist Peter Richardson are now available to buy from our webshop for £79.99. These new pictures include local views of Portsmouth Harbour with Ark Royal, Southsea Parade Pier, Southsea Marina at Low Tide or the well known Still and West pub in Old Portsmouth.

Peter has family ties in Southsea, so local subjects often appear in his work. He was born in India and brought up in the Channel Islands but ended up at Croydon School of Art before a career in advertising, publicity and marketing. He started work in industry but switched to the movie business with the Rank Organisation until retiring at 55. And all that time he spent many of his leisure hours painting, “with a bit of exhibiting and selling”.

He and his wife ran a picture framing and art gallery business in North Hampshire for 20 years but since 1998 he has been a full time artist, concentrating on landscapes and portraiture in all media, apart from considerable ongoing picture restoration work for the Army.

Peter has exhibited widely in the Home Counties and in The Mall Galleries, London. “I try to give an impression of what something looks like, but not delineate it. I use Edward Seago as a model for a lot of what I do,” he said.

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ORIGINAL TITLE:
The Encampment of the English Forces Near Portsmouth, Together With a View of the English and French Fleets at the Commencement of the Action Between Them on the XIXth of July MDXLV (19^th of July 1545)

OTHER NAMES:

• The Cowdry Picture
• The Cowdry Print
• The Last Moments of the Mary Rose

This historic picture was originally painted in 1545 or just afterwards from eye-witness accounts – and was destroyed by fire in 1793. It shows the last man standing on the crow’s nest of the great Tudor warship Mary Rose – the rest of the ship has disappeared as she sinks below the waves of the Solent.

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