Books
Sail Change. Tall Ships in New Zealand Waters.
David
Bateman Ltd. Auckland.
1981.Full page colour illustrations with historicaldetail and anecdotes.
Pacific Sail.
Four
Centuries of Western ships
in the Pacific. David Bateman Ltd. Auckland.Fully
illustrated in
colour with accounts of voyages, exploration and ships with a focus on
technical aspects.
Atlantic Sail.
(Title for U.S.A. Atlantic Seafarers)
Ten Centuries of ships in the North Atlantic. Fully
illustrated in
colour with accounts of voyages, exploration and ships with a focus on technical aspects.
Paintings and Murals
A
series
of
large murals for the Royal
New Zealand Fleet Air Arm at the Auckland Museum of Transport and
Technology. These depicted the
operations of the service during World War
II and consisted of 9 paintings measuring up to 14ft x9ft.
The subjects were:
- The
departure
of the liner Rangitiki from
Auckland with the first contingent for the Fleet Air Arm.
- An airfield in
England
with the aircraft used by the service.
- A
winter
seascape of convoy work in the North Atlantic.
- A
view of an
aircraft landing on viewed from
behind the batman. The carrier
leaving Valetta in Malta…the city of Valetta forms the background.
- Elephants
towing
aircraft… Ceylon
(Shrilanka).
- Murmansk
convoy.
A close up of a Swordfish
biplane landing on a carrier in very rough weather.
- Painting
of
the
aircraft carrier Illustrious
viewed from above the bow with aircraft flying off.
- The
interior
of an officers' mess.
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Murals for
the Far Northern Museum of New
Zealand depicting Abel Tasman and Marion
Du Fresnes on the New Zealand coast.
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Two
watercolours
and two oils of the New
Zealand Sail Training ships Spirit of
Adventure and Spirit of New Zealand.
These were for the Spirit of Adventure Trust to put
into print for
fund-raising.
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A watercolour of the NZ boat which
sailed
in
the Perth challenge for the America Cup. This
went
into print for fund-raising for the challenge.
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A
cut-away
illustration
of a Manila
Galleon for National Geographic. (Sept 1990 edition)
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Two
oil
and
one watercolour painting of the
Manila Galleon Concepcion for Pacific
Sea Resources, the company which recovered a considerable wealth
of
artifacts from the 17th.C wreck. (See Treasure
of the Concepcion, The Archaeological Recovery of a Spanish
Galleon. A.P.A.
Publications (HK) Ltd. Edited by Stuart Kenter. 1993)
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Paintings related to
Pacific
exploration which now hang in the National
Maritime Museum of New Zealand.
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Three oil
and one watercolour painting
of vessels involved in the exploration of the Pacific West Coast of
North
America. These were for a client in
Seattle who intended to donate them in time to a museum in
Seattle.
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A client
living in Spain commissioned
3 paintings of Manila galleons and oil paintings of the Flying
Cloud and Cutty Sark. Subsequently
he
bought some of the paintings used as
illustrations in Atlantic
Seafarers. The commissions
required a trip to Spain. At that
time Roger was painting seascape around Cornwall in England and seeing
to the
auction of the remainder of the paintings from Atlantic
Seafarers.
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Work
accepted and sold at the annual Mystic
Seaport Exhibition.
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Recent
contributor to an exhibition in
Sydney targeted at raising funds for the
restoration of the barque James Craig. Exhibited were 10 large paintings in oil
and
watercolour of Australian
interest all of which have sold then or since.
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A painting
of the American
Great White
Fleet arriving in Auckland in 1909 has recently
been purchased by the Texas A&M
University for their collection.
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Oil painting of
Amundsen's Gjøa to
help
finance a replica to be
built in Fredrikstad, Norway.
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