Oil on Board, W 95cm x H 60cm. Excited as my portrait of my late father’s first cousin, F/O James Joseph Battle and his co-pilot F/O Alfred Campbell Briant has been selected in the Gallipoli Art Prize 2024. I was inspired to capture the spirit of loyalty, respect, love of country, courage and comradeship shown…

Finalist in the Gallipoli Art Prize 2023. “Ernest Albert Corey, originally from Numeralla, was one of the most decorated men of World War 1 and the only soldier in the British Commonwealth to be awarded the Military Medal four times.”

It has been a long journey, preparing, researching, then painting, framing and now delivering my small painting ‘Surveyors of Merauke’ into the Gallipoli Art Prize 2022. I reckon if my Dad and his mates were still alive, they would be happy to have a slice of their story during WWII caught in my painting.