THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT

I’m very fond of ships.  The sea, too, I love.  To watch it is like letting off steam: it’s so vast.  But generally I put nothing on the sea when I paint it. Perhaps a tiny boat if I must.  I’m particularly fond of watching large ships coming into harbour, or being brought down a river by tugs.  I love the Tyne for that reason.  It’s a wonderful river.  Yet somehow I just can’t paint a ship entering a harbour as I would like to.  I’ve never mastered it, and it worries me.

Mullins/Lowry