Artwork Description:

Title: James Caird boat journey to South Georgia April 24th-May 10th 1916

This painting illustrates the notoriously dangerous Drake Passage and the freezing conditions. It shows the crew of the open lifeboat bailing out water as they navigated treacherous seas and fierce gales to reach the safety of South Georgia.

Acrylic on paper

‘We felt our boat lifted and flung forward like a cork in a breaking surf’

Excerpt from Sir Ernest Shackleton diary, 1915.

Artist Bio:

I am a Derbyshire-based, artist/illustrator and art tutor.

I have a degree in textile design, and a masters from Central St Martins in Communication Design/Illustration.

My inspirations include natural history, explorers and naturalists, Hitchcock films, kitchen sink dramas, ghosts & haunted houses  and Agatha Christie and Daphne du Maurier novels.

I am currently working on a series of Shackleton illustrations which evoke the foreboding atmosphere and historic accounts of the Trans-Antarctic Expedition, as well as developing an idea for a graphic novel inspired by Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier.