Martha was a shipowner...........
We attended a jolly event the other evening, commemorating the voyage of the "Albion" from Cardigan to New Brunswick in 1819, carrying 160 souls from Ceredigion who were intent on making a new life in a new land. Mike Francis's lovely painting of the brig was inspired by the work of the Russian artist Aivakovsky.
No painter has ever mastered the art of painting waves in the same way as Aivakovsky -- how on earth did he manage to capture their translucent quality? Sheer genius. The painting below is one of his best.
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