The Gallipoli Artist - Art Inspired Journeys in Turkey

The Gallipoli Artist - Art Inspired Journeys in Turkey Amazing 'art inspired' journeys of discovery throughout Turkey. Painting, drawing, photography workshops. Winetasting

However my aim is to create a lasting legacy of the Gallipoli battlefield and how nature is reclaiming it.

19/01/2025

Available now for purchase. On the southern end of Anzac Cove is a small headland called Hell Spit lying at the front of it is Beach Cemetery. A cemetery in use from day one of the Gallipoli campaign. In 2019 I had the pleasure of travelling around with a wonderful mob of people I affectionately cal...

18/01/2025

Available now for purchase. Imagine on a cold and stormy night in January 1915 a small ship slipped quietly into the shallows of Gully Beach in Gallipoli. After more than 8 months in this hellhole, the troops were finally evacuating. Their ANZAC counterparts had done so two weeks earlier and now fin...

17/01/2025

Available now for purchase. The Gallipoli Campaign of 1915 and 1916 affected more than those fighting on the Aegean Coast of Turkey. From February 1915 the allies had occupied the nearby Greek island of Lemnos. The reason for this occupation initially was to provide support for invading forces as th...

16/01/2025

Available now for purchase. I stumbled across some ancient windmills on the hilltop overlooking the beautiful Gumusluk village. They were indeed very beautiful. You can check out the separate gallery for the 4 canvasses completed of the windmills, which have since been destroyed to build luxury vill...

14/01/2025

Available now for purchase. Those who have travelled with me around Gallipoli are sometimes shocked when I suggest we leave a beautifully maintained Shrapnel Valley and take a steep walk for 650 metres along the ridge overlooking Anzac Cove. Some people are reticent to attempt it, and I don't force....

13/01/2025

Available now for purchase. A few years ago I was approached by the partner of a previous client from Gallipoli. Actually, as in most cases my clients become more friends than mere clients. Chris is one of those friends. His 50th birthday was coming up and his partner contacted me about how much Chr...

12/01/2025

Available now for purchase. A highlight for my visitors and always for me is to take the steep path up McLagan's Ridge to Plugge's Plateau. It truly is an amazing place to look down upon just about the entire ANZAC Sector. From the western edge you can see all the way along North Beach to Suvla Bay....

11/01/2025

Available now for purchase. On March 18 1915 the combined fleets of Britain and France attempted to break through the lines of mines and artillery that lined The Narrows. However the hero of the story is a little minelayer, the Nusret. Ten days before the attempt the little tugboat that could sailed...

10/01/2025

Available now for purchase. Since I started painting in Gallipoli, the Lighter wreck on W Beach has always fascinated me. I've painted it so many times and the reason being that every time I visit the wreck it looks different. There are only slight seasonal tides on the Aegean but sometimes the wrec...

09/01/2025

Available now for purchase. Anzac Cove in the past century has changed lots and at the same time changed very little. even though there are retaining walls and a wide road, all built in recent years, there are still the original little lost places on the Cove. You can still find those little places....

08/01/2025

Available now for purchase. This commission features the pre-dawn situation on North Beach prior to sunrise on 25th April 2019. Always the coldest part of the day just before the dawn. These pilgrims wrapped up like sleeping cocoons in sleeping bags, huddled together, while those awake are entertain...

07/01/2025

Available now for purchase. We searched for Harry.......... He landed on that fatal shore. for two days he fought until the day he disappeared. His unit fought across Lala Baba to the plain, he took Green Hill, then when they pressed for Ismailoglu Tepe when Sgt Harry went down in the field. Fires r...

06/01/2025

Available now for purchase. A few years ago a local farmer in Cape Helles decided to clear the blackberry bushes on his land. What he found shocked him. In June 1915 the French dragged these guns here. They face not the enemy on the frontline but fire eastwards across the Dardanelles all the way fro...

05/01/2025

Available now for purchase. No visitor to the Gallipoli Battlefield can avoid the bustling ferry port of Canakkale. Especially beautiful at sunset. Such a lively place, a university town filled with young History students. The seaside promenade alive with life. Across the Dardanelles, The Narrows, s...

04/01/2025

Available now for purchase. There on the shores of Suvla Bay is a testament that nature has won the war started in the Aegean in 1915. Located near what they called The Cut, the channel cut by the British after their landing in August of that year. It was once one of the necessary tools of the invas...

03/01/2025

Available now for purchase. Two paintings, same subject, same location, different results. This set just can't be separated. So I'm offering them both. The W Beach wreck changes throughout the year, depending on the tide, the weather, the wind. I love it. - Rusty Wreck of W Beach Set #2

02/01/2025

Available now for purchase. A few years ago a man from Queensland crossed my path. He was the 75 year old nephew of a man who had already lived an extraordinary life up until he was wounded in Gallipoli at 22. A gr***de blew up in his hand and blinded him as well as blowing off his right arm. This e...

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