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.

29/12/2024

Available now for purchase. How many times have I walked down this track? How many times have I imagined the French Artiluers preparing their guns to fire not on the enemy at their front, but the enemy located in another continent, the Asiatic guns of the Ottoman Empire protecting the right flank of...

28/12/2024

Available now for purchase. Another of the 'Rusty Wrecks on Gallipoli Beaches' series. This poor steampacket lighter ran aground in 1915, often target practice for Turkish gunners it has survived until the 21st century. A favourite home to nomadic crabs and small fish, it lies along the pristine A B...

27/12/2024

Available now for purchase. As the sunsets and the moon rises, and all the visitors to the cemeteries have left. When the gardeners and stonemasons have gone home to their families, then an eerie loneliness twilight descends on Anzac. Just me, just all those memories. - Gallipoli's North Beach to Ar...

26/12/2024

Available now for purchase. Down on the toe of the Gallipoli Peninsula and battlefield is W Beach. This beautiful little beach is still littered with the detritus of the war that raged here in 1915. One enduring feature of W Beach is the wreck lying on the western end of the beach. Funny thing is th...

25/12/2024

Available now for purchase. Barbed wire was first patented in 1867. Like most inventions at the time it didn't take long for the military to find a way to utilise it. Can you just imagine the millions of metres of barbed wire were used along trenches in WW1? The landing at W Beach on the southern ti...

24/12/2024

Available now for purchase. We've all heard the story of The Nek. The tragic Light Horse charges, Mark Lee sprinting to his death. There is more to The Nek. In the recent trench clearances the entire left flank of The Nek and Russell's Top trenches has now opened up. When you walk all the way to the...

23/12/2024

Available now for purchase. In 2018 The Gallipoli Artist, me, whilst on a family holiday near Bodrum and always on the lookout for things old and interesting. I stumbled across these ancient windmills along the hilltop overlooking Gümüşlük. They have stood here for more than 500 years and very s...

22/12/2024

Available now for purchase. Kylia Bay was the main resupply harbour for the Ottomans during the Gallipoli campaign. It also went on to provide the same function for the allied occupation forces after the war. There are signs of this activity everywhere. In this painting Canakkale is in the backgroun...

21/12/2024

Available now for purchase. This is the smaller canvas of the four in the series. This shows the loving restoration of one of the windmills, a home with a white dog (oh did you see the dog?) The local Council have since decided to demolish these beautiful windmills and sell the hilltop for luxury, c...

20/12/2024

Available now for purchase. Artwork of The Windmills of Gümüşlük - The Gallipoli Artist - Paintings & Prints, Landscapes & Nature, Paths & Trails - ArtPal

19/12/2024

Available now for purchase. One of my latest artworks. This is V Beach in the lovely town of Seddulbahir at sunset. A peaceful and beautiful part of the battlefield now, but in April 1915 the scene of a horrendous landing of the British using their modern day version of a Trojan Horse. They crashed....

18/12/2024

Available now for purchase. In 2018 The Gallipoli Artist, me, travelled to a town near Bodrum. Sure these days there's lots of concrete and sunchairs, but we need to recall when this area was the crossroads between the Persian East and the Greek west. It doesn't take long for someone like me to disc...

17/12/2024

Available now for purchase. After painting Lone Pine in Gallipoli from different angles through different seasons I decided to throw caution to the wind and go crazy with stars and sky. - Starry Sky over Lone Pine

16/12/2024

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16/12/2024

Available now for purchase. The Lone Pine Australian Cemetery is now a peaceful place, it's simple symmetry a testament to the CWGC. It wasn't always so. In August 1915 it was the scene of carnage. carnage not seen since the Dark Ages. below this symmetry in mid-August this ground was littered with....

15/12/2024

Available now for purchase. Located between the sea and the frontline, tucked away in the folds of the Gallipoli hills lies a seldom visited cemetery. It's cemetery holds many who died in this sector, including the brother of AB Facey and my mate George Rowley. When the full moon sets over the Aegea...

14/12/2024

Available now for purchase. A few years ago I discovered that my brother-in-law had two uncles that enlisted and served in WW1, the McDonald brothers Joe and Allan. Allan joined the Light Horse and served at Gallipoli and Palestine. Allan returned to Australia and enlisted again in WW2, serving in A...

13/12/2024

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...

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