Marine art sale helping seafarers in need

Maritime Journal -

Well known marine artist Bill Bishop is calling on admirers of his work and maritime enthusiasts to help support some of the UK’s impoverished seafarers.

He is donating the profits from the sale of a recent work The approach to Trafalgar to Chichester based charity, the Shipwrecked Mariners’ Society.

Bill is also donating the profits from limited edition prints of his paintings of the Cutty Sark, which the Society featured on Christmas cards last year, along with the Victory entering Portsmouth for the last time, which it is producing as a card for the 2011 festive season.

The Shipwrecked Mariners’ Society operates to help UK seafarers in need through a combination of regular and one-off crisis grants. In the last 12 months seafarers in 2,750 cases of need from across the country benefited from the Society’s support. In the last year alone it has distributed grants totalling over £1.6m. It also helped beneficiaries access £31,000 in Government benefits.

Bill Bishop grew up in Portsmouth. Sailing on his father’s boats he began sketching and making models. Today, a full time artist, his medium is oils and his subject is anything from Viking ships to windsurfers, historical naval battles to contemporary yachting. His work has been exhibited by the Royal Society of Marine Artists and he has received commissions from the Royal Naval Museum in Portsmouth and the Mary Rose Trust.

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