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.

26/03/2025

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...

25/03/2025

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...

24/03/2025

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...

23/03/2025

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...

22/03/2025

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...

21/03/2025

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

20/03/2025

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...

19/03/2025

Available now for purchase. My earlier works were a mix of watercolour and acrylic. A different style at the time. I'd like to see these as a set. Same subject, same location but two different paintings. I love them both and don't want to see them separated. - The Rusty Wreck W Beach Set #1

18/03/2025

Available now for purchase. Along the coast from the crowded trench-filled ANZAC Sector lies Suvla Bay. The landing there in August 1915 saw 30,000 men come ashore. Interestingly many of the troops did not land in Suvla Bay but on C Beach and B Beach outside oof Suvla. This beach is pristine! Clear....

17/03/2025

Available now for purchase. At 04.30 on the 25th of April 1915 as the first rowboats of the first wave of the ANZACs approach their date with destiny. The first searchlight from the shore shines onto one of the boats. Even though this soldier is one of many boats with forty comrades, he could not fe...

16/03/2025

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...

15/03/2025

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...

14/03/2025

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...

13/03/2025

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...

12/03/2025

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...

11/03/2025

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...

10/03/2025

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...

09/03/2025

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...

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