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| NarrowBoat Art was started as an excuse not to polish the brass and copper in my home. As a coach driver I had seen narrow boats at destinations like Oxford and Stratford and therefore attempted to paint the brass and copper in the style that I had seen on my travels.
Luckily for me, my partner Viv, liked what I had painted and this continued to a point whereby we ran out of space to display the items I had painted.
This lead to local craft fairs whereby I could display my work and hopefully sell a few items. Unfortunately as I live in Sussex on the coast with the English Channel, narrow boats are not seen very often. Now you find us at many canal festivals and boat gatherings and are said "to becoming part of the canal scene"!
(Viv & Myself enjoying a break on our visit to the Black Country Museum)
Canal festivals where you may have seen us:
2001 - Tring Canal Festival
2002 - IWA National Festival at Huddersfield - Tring Canal Festival
2003 - IWA National Festival at Beale Park, Pangbourne - Tring Canal Festival -
2004 - IWA National Festival at Burton upon Trent - Tring Canal Festival - Moira Canal Festival - Saul Canal Festival- Parkhead Canal Festival
2005 - IWA National Festival at Preston Brook - Saul Canal Festival - Tring Canal Festival - Middlewich Canal Festival - Slough Canal Festival - Netherton Canal Festival - Shackerstone Canal Festival
2006 - IWA National Festival at Beale Park, Pangbourne - Saul Canal Festival - Slough Canal Festival - Netherton Canal Festival - Parkhead Canal Festival 2007 - IWA Canalway Cavalcade at Little Venice, Paddington, London - Reading Water Fest,Abbey Ruins, Chestnut Walk, Reading -IWA National Festival at St.Ives, Cambridgeshire - Netherton Canal Festival - Banbury Canal Day, Oxfordshire 2008 - IWA Canalway Cavalcade at Little Venice, Paddington, London - Reading Fest, Abbey Ruins,Reading - Saul Canal Festival, Gloucestershire, Newbury Waterways Festival - Victoria Park, Newbury - IWA National Festival - Autherley Junction, Shrophire Union, Wolverhampton - Black Country Boating Festival, Windmill End, Netherton, West Midlands - Parkhead Boat Gathering, Dudley, West Midlands - Banbury Canal festival , Oxfordshire 2009 - Ownerships Show, at Braunston Marina, Daventry - IWA Canalway Cavalcade at Little Venice, Paddington, London - Crick Boat Show at Crick Marina,Northamptonshire - Braunston Historic Narrowboats Rally, at Braunston Maria Daventry - Newbury Waterways Festival, Victoria Park, Newbury , - IWA National Festival at Nottingham, - Black Country Boating Festival,Netherton,West Midlands, - Banbury Canal Day | |
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