We are pleased to announce that we are now publishing greeting cards from some of Robin Eckardt’s paintings. If you have been to the gallery, you may have seen her impressive pictures of yachts sailing as she exhibited with us twice. Two of her paintings (Yellow Sails and Over Head Yacht) are currently on display and keep on amazing our customers with their texture, incredible seas and impression of speed. You can buy these two and other originals from Robin on our webshop or greetings cards from her scenes of London (Picadilly Circus, Big Ben, Saint Paul), New-York and Venice. See all her artworks.

Robin Eckardt was born on the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico where she spent the first ten years of her life. She is a fine art printer and captures the most effective points whilst painting her portraits of famous people. Since a very young age she has always had a strong passion for art and has become more serious for the subject throughout her years of study.

She has experienced with all types of media and has experimented with lots of different methods and painting techniques during her painting career. Luckily, Robin has always had the freedom to express her feelings and approach the world with utter reliability and enthusiasm which comes across in her works of art.

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Martin Leman is one of the world’s most prolific painters of cats - a subject he has made his own through countless exhibitions around the world, huge publishing successes and book sales of over half a million. He also has the rare achievement of receiving critical acclaim as well gaining mass popularity.

His work has been regularly exhibited in the Royal Academy Summer Shows and in the past has hung in a group show with some of the greatest names in 20th Century British Art. His latest book ‘Martin Leman’s Cats’ with a foreword by Sir Roy Strong, has already sold-out and a second edition is in production.

In 2004, we commissioned ‘Horatio the Dockyard Cat‘, an original oil painting by Martin Leman. It depicts a ginger cat named after Lord Horatio Nelson in Portsmouth Historic Dockyard. The background includes HMS Victory’s masts (which can be seen from our gallery) and a Georgian storehouse (in the same style as the one our gallery lives in). This picture is one of Martin Leman’s best pictures and is sure to be loved by followers of the naïve animal art genre.

We turned the original into two exclusive prints (a small and a large) and a greetings card. All these are available from our gallery and our webshop, as well as other prints by Martin Leman, including some rare limited edition etchings.

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EXCLUSIVE - Under Licence from the Ministry of Defence

Artists Harbour sells photographic and art paper prints of Royal Navy photos from the Trafalgar 200 International Fleet Review (T200 IFR) plus the few remaining copies of the (all zones) DVD of the week’s events, including the brilliant fireworks in which 45 tons of high explosuives went up during the re-enactment of the Battle of Trafalgar!

Probably the biggest peacetime naval event the world will see throughout the whole of the 21^st Century took place on Tuesday, June 28, 2005 in the Solent off Portsmouth, UK. A unique range of sea vessels filled the waters of the eastern Solent and aircraft and helicopters took part in thrilling fly-pasts.

The Royal Navy had invited 35 foreign navies and 24 maritime organisations from around the world to send a total of 105 warships and naval support ships plus 51 non-naval vessels to take part in friendship in the International Fleet Review to celebrate Trafalgar 200 ( T200 ) – 200 years since 1805, when at the Battle of Trafalgar Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson’s fleet finally destroyed Napoleon’s ability to invade Britain with his then invincible armies by sea. Nelson, in his famous flagship HMS Victory, died a hero at Trafalgar.

Vessels at the T200 International Fleet Review ranged from the massive USS Saipan and France’s Charles de Gaulle aircraft carriers to romantic tall ships under sail, tugs and Cunard’s famous QE2 luxury liner, as well as a huge contingent of all types of warship from the Royal Navy. Merchant ships, racing and cruising yachts, fishing boats and family and work boats were also there - a dramatic reminder of the importance of the sea in Britain’s national life.

The ships queued almost into Southampton as they were reviewed by Her Majesty The Queen, Elizabeth II, on waters that had seen the massive naval reviews of Victorian and Edwardian times – when Britain’s navy really did rule the waves and was always kept bigger than the combined might of the world’s next two biggest navies – all the way back to King Henry VIII inspecting his warships in the early 16^th Century as he built the Royal Navy.

• List of the Royal Navy ships at the Trafalgar 200 International Fleet Review
• List of International Navies and ships attending the Trafalgar 200 International Fleet Review
• List of Civilians Ships attending the Trafalgar 200 International Fleet Review

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