A new Frank Shipsides collection is always worth celebrating. Formore than 50 years now, Frank has lived and worked in Bristol and isone its most famous living artists.
Yet he started as a commercial artist for Mardon, Son and Hallbefore going freelance after 20 years with the firm.
These days his maritime paintings and scenes of Bristol are highlycollectable.
The seeds of his love of the sea were planted in the 30s whenFrank and his wife holidayed at Torquay where the great battleshipsof the Home Fleet were anchored.
His sketches of the pride of the British Navy was the beginning ofhis love affair with ships and the sea which led him to move to …
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