Virgin Atlantic Challenger paintings, prints, Richard Branson and the Blue Riband of the Atlantic.
"Virgin Atlantic Challenger II", 91 x 61 cm (36" x 24"), original sold to Sir Richard Branson. Available as a print from our print page.
Available as a signed, numbered ‘Heritage’ on canvas for the look and feel of this original painting > print <
Virgin Atlantic Challenger II while experiencing difficulties made the fastest Atlantic crossing recorded with Richard Branson and his Virgin team from the Ambrose light, New York to the Wolf Rock lighthouse, Isles of Scilly.
I found myself on the press boat, invited by friends at BBC Radio Cornwall. There I took the only colour picture record, now in the archives of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London. All the other press used black and white.
That evening at the Press conference I painted a watercolour which all the Virgin crew including Richard Branson & Chay Blyth signed on the reverse. That painting is now sold to a ‘Virgin’ collector in England.
The watercolour and photographs plus my sense of the occasion are the basis of this exceptional painting.
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