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Former CB art editor, Peter Smith chooses his favourite paintings from the 2025 RSMA show at London’s Mall Galleries.
Celebrating British coastal waters and culture, the Royal Society of Marine Artist exhibition included 400 paintings and sculptures, from details of waves, to studies of boatyards, yachts and traditional work boats, and harbour views. It’s an impressive exhibition demonstrating the skills gathered from the best of British marine artists.
This year’s winner of the Classic Boat award was James Brereton for his oil painting ‘Clear Seas, the Alpha’. Born 1954 in Derby and having studied at the Joseph Wright Art School, it was while living in Charminster near Bournemouth, Devon, that James developed a keen interest in marine painting much influenced by the established artists Montague Dawson and Thomas Somerscales. Now his favourite subjects are deep-water sailing ships of the 19th century. Highly Commended was Greg Ramsden ARSMA for his ‘Return to the Grayhound’. Greg studied at Sheffield Hallam University under realist painter and Turner Prize nominee George Shaw, graduating with a BA Hons in fine art painting in 2003. This year he won the Guild of Ships Painting Award and became the artist in residence aboard the 68ft (20.7m) lugger and eco-sailing vessel Grayhound.
You can see all the exhibits online at the Mall Galleries.
Clear Seas, the Alpha – Classic Boat Award Winner
By James Brereton, oil on canvas board 31 x 25cm, £1,700
Return to the Grayhound painting
By Greg Ramsden ARSMA, oil on board, 30 x 41cm, £1,250
Peel Passing St Clements Rock
Tim Hall RSMA, oil on canvas, 80 x 99cm, £8,500
Dutch Fishing Pincks Putting to Sea in a Breeze
Geoffrey Huband VPRSMA , oil, 51 x 71cm, £3,500
Full Sail
Sirangam Mohankumar RSMA, watercolour, 46 x 33cm, £1,400
A Cracking Breeze – racers in west Solent
J F Morgan RSMA, 51 x 51cm, £1,000
Edwardian London
Patrick O’Brien PASMA, oil on canvas, 61 x 91cm, £14,000
Much To Do painting
Haidee-Jo Summer VPROI, RSMA, oil on canvas, 51 x 61cm, £2,400
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