| ARTIST | Featured Artist - Ivan Berryman
Art and aviation have been like a brother and sister to me. We have grown up together, learned together and made our adult lives together. But you do not have to have an appreciation of aircraft to admire the graceful lines of a Spitfire or the functional simplicity of a Focke-Wulf 190. They are themselves a work of art and they cry out to be painted - not as machines of war and destruction, but as objects of beauty, born of necessity and function, yet given a life and iconic classicism beyond their original calling. My interest and love of art and aircraft was gifted to me by my father, a designer and aeronautical engineer of considerable repute. Denis Berryman C.Eng. FRAeS. He gave me his eyes, his passion, his dedication and his unwavering professionalism. I owe him everything. And I miss him terribly. A love of art and of beautiful and interesting things takes you on a journey. You discover new interests, new fascinations, and you want to paint them. You want to paint them in their environment, in their element. Whether it is an aeroplane, a warship, a racing car or a beautiful woman, their gift to an artist is the same: Their lines, their texture and the way that light and shadows give them form. These are the food and oxygen of an artist. Not the paint and the canvas. These are mere tools. The secret is in the passion and the perception. |
| | Original Pilot Signed Battle of Britain Pencil Drawings |
A selection of great value Battle of Britain aviation drawings, signed by some of the pilots who flew in the battle 70 years ago.
These superb unique pieces of artwork have been signed by Hurricance, Spitfire and Me109 pilots from both sides of the Battle of Britain :
Wounded Eagle is signed by Group Captain Byron Duckenfield
JG52 - Summer 1940 is signed by General Gunther Rall and also features the matted original signatures of Oberst Erich Hartmann and General Johannes Steinhoff
One on the Run is signed by both Group Captain Byron Duckenfield and Flight Lieutenant Roy Daines
Straggler's End is signed by Group Captain Byron Duckenfield
Roy Daines signs one of the original pencil drawings.
We have selected a few of the best of these drawings to display here, but there are many more similar signed and unsigned drawings on the pencil drawing pages of artists David Pentland and Ivan Berryman |
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