Books
Sail
Change. Tall
Ships in New Zealand Waters.
David
Bateman
Ltd. Auckland.
1981.Full page colour illustrations with
historicaldetail and anecdotes.
Pacific Sail.
Four
Centuries
of Western ships
in the Pacific. David Bateman Ltd.
Auckland.Fully
illustrated in
colour with accounts of voyages, exploration and
ships
with a focus on
technical aspects.
Atlantic Sail.
(Title for U.S.A. Atlantic
Seafarers)
Ten
Centuries of ships in the North Atlantic.
Fully
illustrated in
colour with accounts of voyages, exploration and
ships
with a focus on technical aspects.
Auckland Waterfront. The Port of
Auckland in Edwardian Times. Captain Teach Press
2014.
A collection of studies in oil and watercolour of the
Auckland Waterfront from around 1900 to 1911.
Paintings and
Murals
A
series
of
large
murals for the Royal
New Zealand Fleet Air Arm at the Auckland Museum
of Transport and
Technology. These
depicted the
operations of the service during World War
II and consisted of 9 paintings measuring up to 14ft
x9ft. The subjects
were:
- The
departure
of
the liner Rangitiki from
Auckland with the first contingent for the Fleet
Air Arm.
- An
airfield in
England
with the aircraft used by the service.
- A
winter
seascape of convoy work in the North Atlantic.
- A
view of an
aircraft landing on viewed from
behind the batman. The
carrier
leaving Valetta in Malta…the city of Valetta forms
the background.
- Elephants
towing
aircraft…
Ceylon
(Shrilanka).
- Murmansk
convoy.
A
close
up of a Swordfish
biplane landing on a carrier in very rough
weather.
- Painting
of
the
aircraft
carrier
Illustrious
viewed from above the bow with aircraft flying
off.
- The
interior
of
an officers' mess.
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Murals for
the Far Northern Museum of New
Zealand depicting Abel Tasman and Marion
Du Fresnes on the New Zealand coast.
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Two
watercolours
and
two oils of the New
Zealand Sail Training ships Spirit
of
Adventure and Spirit of New
Zealand. These
were for the Spirit of Adventure Trust to put
into print for
fund-raising.
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A watercolour of the NZ
boat which
sailed
in
the Perth challenge for the America Cup. This
went
into
print for fund-raising for the challenge.
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A
cut-away
illustration
of
a Manila
Galleon for National Geographic. (Sept 1990
edition)
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Two
oil
and
one
watercolour painting of the
Manila Galleon Concepcion for Pacific
Sea Resources, the company which recovered a
considerable wealth
of
artifacts from the 17th.C wreck. (See Treasure
of the Concepcion, The Archaeological Recovery
of a Spanish
Galleon. A.P.A.
Publications (HK) Ltd. Edited by Stuart Kenter.
1993)
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Paintings
related to
Pacific
exploration which now hang in the National
Maritime
Museum of New Zealand.
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Three
oil
and one watercolour painting
of vessels involved in the exploration of the
Pacific West Coast of
North
America. These were for
a client in
Seattle who intended to donate them in time to
a museum in
Seattle.
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A
client
living in Spain commissioned
3 paintings of Manila galleons and oil paintings of
the Flying
Cloud and Cutty Sark. Subsequently
he
bought
some of the paintings used as
illustrations in Atlantic
Seafarers. The
commissions
required a trip to Spain. At
that
time Roger was painting seascape around Cornwall in
England and seeing
to the
auction of the remainder of the paintings from Atlantic
Seafarers.
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Work
accepted
and sold at the annual Mystic
Seaport Exhibition.
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Recent
contributor
to an exhibition in
Sydney targeted at raising funds for the
restoration of the barque James Craig. Exhibited
were 10 large paintings in oil
and
watercolour of Australian
interest all of which have sold then or since.
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A
painting
of the American
Great White
Fleet arriving in Auckland in 1909 has
recently
been purchased by the Texas A&M
University for their collection.
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Oil painting
of
Amundsen's Gjøa to
help
finance
a replica to be
built in Fredrikstad, Norway.
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