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Ship art by Derek G. M. Gardner |
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Thursday, 29 November 2007 |
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Page 1 of 2 Derek George Montague Gardner (13 February 1914-11 February 2007) is best known as a British painter. After a career as a civil engineer before and after serving in the Royal Navy in the Second World War, he became widely recognised as one of the leading British painters of marine subjects.Gardner was born in Buckinghamshire. His father was a civil engineer who worked for the Great Central Railway in the docks at Grimsby and became chief engineer of the Port of Glasgow in 1928, and Gardner developed a love of ships.He was educated at Oundle School, where he won a prize for his drawing. He left school in 1931, and trained as a civil engineer in Glasgow with the London Midland & Scottish Railway. He later joined Sir William Arrol & Co. He joined the RNVR as a 20-year-old midshipman, and took up painting watercolours of warships. He became a docks engineer at North Shields in 1938. Great ship art from Derek G. M. Gardner (click on pictures to enlarge)
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