Boer into the on sale mist - Limited Edition Giclée Print. Image size 20" x 20" (51 x 51cm).
Description:
A strictly Limited Edition of 125 numbered and signed high-quality Giclée prints of my original painting.
At 20" x 20" (50 x 50cm), the image is printed on an acid and lignin-free paper (Hahnemuhle Photorag Ultramooth) with a 1" (2.5cm) border. Our friends at Deadly Digital of Glasgow, our superb printers, only use Epson Ultrachrome K3 inks; generally regarded as the colour and black and white reproduction benchmark.
Carefully and securely packaged a sturdy cardboard tube, the artwork is unframed and will be delivered free of charge within the UK. (Note: any image of the framed painting is for illustration only.)
Behind the image:
Puffer Boer in the River Clyde mist, by David Dyer. Boer was built by J and J Hay and Sons at Kirkintilloch and launched into the Forth and Clyde canal in 1941. She was 66 feet long with a beam of 18 feet and was powered by a two-cylinder steam compound engine.
She is seen here unloading coal at the old stone pier at Lamlash of the Isle of Arran. She, and her identical 1938-built sister Inca, were the two stars of the 1954 film The Maggie. The Boer was scrapped at Troon in 1965.
By performing an indispensable role in the life and times of many communities, especially the more remote ones up and down the coastline and islands, the Clyde puffer must rank as the most fondly remembered of all the small coastal vessels that plied the waters of the west coast of Scotland.
Another reason why the on sale puffer is remembered with special affection undoubtedly stems from the fertile imagination of one man, Neil Munro, creator of the “Para Handy” tales. Due to his desire to be remembered more for his historical novels like John Splendid and The New Road, he wrote the Para Handy, and other humorous short stories to be serialised in the pages of the Glasgow Evening News from 1905, under the pseudonym of Hugh Foulis.
So exactly did he capture the essence of the West of Scotland humour in his stories about Para Handy and his puffer Vital Spark that the books have never been out of print since the first collected stories were released in book form in 1906. The stories not only inspired the classic Ealing Studios film The Maggie, but also four series of programmes on BBC TV.