Showing a busy harbor off Brandt Point , Nantucket
Born in Whitley Bay on the northeast coast of England where the area has a rich maritime heritage and Fred sketched local scenes and landmarks.
Joined the Royal Air Force and served in various locations such as the Outer Hebrides Island off Scotland, in Nicosia, Cyprus and Oman on the coast of South Arabia.
Then studied Marine Radio and Electronics in Yorkshire at the Kingston-Upon-Hull College. Hull had a thriving school of marine art and after visits to the Ferens Art Gallery and the Hull Whaling Museum he was motivated to paint marine oils on canvas of the Humber keels and sloops which plied the inland waterways and the Hull whaling ships which voyaged northern and southern oceans in search of the whale in the days of sail.
He joined the Cunard Steamship Company a a Radio & Electronics Officer and traveled the world on many types of ships including freezer ships, general cargo ships, container ships, tankers, dive support vessels and passenger ships. Fred painted during the long sea passages and exhibited his work with a local art group and galleries in the North of England.
After studying the watercolor paintings in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, local art galleries and auction houses began painting marine watercolors.
Whilst serving in the South Atlantic between Ascension Island, Port Stanley in the Falkland Islands and Montvide, he was commissioned to paint some of the ships then operating in that area.
Recent years have been spent running his art gallery of the River Tyne in the north of England and traveling on Dive Support ships working on subsea oil and gas installations and under oil production platforms in Scotland, Norway, Denmark, Spain, Congo, Nigeria, Cape Town South Africa, the South China Sea and many parts of Arabia.
Currently residing in New Jersey and painting maritime scenes of the Hudson River, Nantucket / New Bedford whaling ships and the US Northeast coast. His painting are in collections in England, Scotland, Norway Holland, New Zealand, South Africa and USA.
