Signed by the artist, Martin Knowles, 60cm x 40cm, extra matte poster from original 1983 oil painting of Legend "HMS Endeavour" with Lieutenant (later, Captain) James Cook approaching North Island New Zealand, west bound from Tahiti in October 1769.
 
Poster is sent rolled, in protective packaging.  Price includes second class Royal Mail postage.  
 
About the Artist
In 1980, I was walking down Bond Street in London and saw a picture of a sailing ship in Green's window.   Having loved, studied and built models of sailing ships all my life, I felt inspired to try my hand at painting.  So, I went out and bought a canvas, oil paints and some brushes and set to work. `Three years later I was Chairman of a corporate Art Club, a friend of the RSMA , showing pictures in Art exhibitions  of which Terrence Cuneo was chairman, and selling a few paintings when  could bear to part with them!  I also built two further 18th century war ships from the wood of a Queen Anne oak tree.   There were certain ships and scenes which I wished to paint, including two of Captain Cook's "Endeavour" off New Zealand (where I was born) and Amundsun's "Gjoa" on the NW Passage, plus several from Gustaf Errickson's fleet of 4-masted grain ships coming  up the Atlantic. In two paintings, I was surprised to find satisfaction at once -  before I had hardly started - and from this I learnt to discipline myself to stop when it felt right.