Web Site Summary:

This website was my original site with a few new additions . My new Watercolour Worksheet details can be found here. If you want to visit the new site, please click on the link above the picture of me painting.

This web site is created by artist Neil Mawdsley. There are many paintings for sale: Moorland landscapes, Tamar seascapes and prints to view, and freeware to download, and a  free art project to try out. There are traditional and contemporary paintings for sale. Also some thought provoking  pages about life today.

For watercolour enthusiasts, the painting project will take two to four hours. Download free!  Many paintings are on view: Traditional English watercolours mainly of Devon and Cornwall, pastels of Dartmoor, Bodmin Moor, River Tamar, Barbican, Hoe, maritime history themes, Tamar valley, seascapes, Tamar Bridges, Ridgeway and the Thames valley around Bledlow and Thame and many paintings with church themes. There is a diary section with pages about eclipse 2000, Sennen Cove, and Saltash Passage.

There are shipwreck posters of Plymouth and SE Cornwall (Looe Bay, Whitsand Bay, Looe and Polperro) These show hundreds of wreck details of the maritime history, marine archaeology, marine history of the area. For divers this is particularly interesting, with shipwreck sites, date of shipwrecks and the names of shipwrecks. There is information on wreck cargo and months of the year when wrecks occurred.

    St Budeaux Parish church is the church where Sir Francis Drake was married. There is a fully illustrated history of St Budeaux church and links to other churches. Also an art  project about the National Lottery. Watercolour art courses to try out. Even on this site a place to relax?  Fun poetry about artists, serious poetry about badgers, history, webmaster services and even a burglar alarm for protection!  

MORE DETAILS of this website:

 Wreck sites UK

Shipwrecks around Looe and Polperro Cornwall, is my latest poster and has taken me over two years  to complete, with loads of research involved. The poster has hundreds of reference details, including names and dates of shipwrecks, types of cargo from coffee, brandy and silver to coal, granite or bones. There are illustrations of heroic lifeboat rescues in hurricane force winds and mountainous sea,. to collisions, and groundings of Titanic like liners in fog bound flat conditions. I refer to ‘False lights’ wreckers and smuggling, and the origin of vessels from the U.S.A. Canada, South America, France, Germany, Holland, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, Greece India and Africa. The poster is now available framed, signed and dated

Wreck place names: Whitsand Bay, Talland Bay, Portnadler Bay,Looe Bay, Rame, Queener, Polhawn, Tregonhawke, Freathy, Crafthole, Sharrow, The Brawn, The Longstone, Downderry, Seaton, Millendreath, Chough Rock, Hannafore, St Georges Island, Looe Island, Hore Stone. 

Wreck names:(extracts) Gipsy, Bellissima, James Egan Lane, Marguerite, HMS A7, Wolf, Albion, Josiah and Betty, Hope, HMS Cossack, Lady of the Lake, Prarie Flower, La Victoire, Zarita, Rosehill, Naiad, Speedwell, Mary Ann, Del Freide, Sappho, Harmonie, Quebec of Maine, Chancellor, Endeavour, Albermarle, Shepherdess......and many more. 

Some other wrecks on the poster:Bon Pasteur, Flying Cloud, Richelieu, Valentin, Curacao Packet, Swanbon, A8, Glen Strathallen, Albion,  Di Catherina Von Flensberg, HMS Amethyst, Uncle Jack, HMS Conqueror, HMS Abelard, John and Robert, H29, La Maria, Tamar, HMS Jasper, Mystery, Washington, Kentish Coast, Coromandel, HMS Mermaid, Fair City, Eclipse........and many, many more.