Lamplight Scene, 1948 Indian ink & watercolour. NFS.
Our Gang, 1948 Indian ink, pen and wash. NFS.
The Arrest, 1947 Indian ink & watercolour. NFS.
A Wagon Load of Ale, 1949. Private collection.
Unloading Casks, Cherry Garden Pier, 1949. Indian ink & watercolour. Private collection. The wharves near Cherry Garden Pier stored a great variety of cereals, nuts and sugar barley. As a child I would wait for the dockers to go for lunch and receive for my patience a handful of barley sugar. The shoreline was my playground but so many children were drowned The London County Council distributed a poster; 'Keep Death Off The River'. This work is my earliest riverside painting, now in a private collection. I have made a 'cartoon' of this and am considering making as a stained glass panel.
Tea Time at Carrons Wharf, 1948. Poster colour, crayon and Indian ink. Private collection. A docker pauses for a mug of tea while children play hoop-la in the middle distance. The pointed shape above his cap probably refers to the steeple of St Marys Church Rotherhithe. Life in London appeared very grim to me, a culture shock after the freedom and tranquility of Devon where I was evacuated to as a child. In 1946 I started as a Junior at Camberwell School of Art and then things started to look up.
Unloading Cereals, near Cherry Garden Pier, 1950s. Ink wash and watercolour. Private collection.
A Strike Gathers Strength
'On The Call' Surrey Docks, 1957. Indian ink wash drawing. NFS.
Two for the Barge, Bermondsey Wall, 1960.
Unloading Bales of Jute. Indian ink. NFS
Surrey Docks Studies 1960's. NFS.
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