UK Painter Of Historic Bermuda Ships Dies
Renowned British marine artist Deryck Foster — whose paintings often featured Bermuda ships and Bermuda seascapes — is memorialised in the UK “Daily Telegraph” today [Dec. 15]
The acclaimed painter, whose work was bought by the Duke of Edinburgh and the former Prime Minister Edward Heath, first came to the island in 1972 at the invitation of one-time Bermuda Tourism Minister and sailor Deforest [Shorty] Trimingham. Mr. Foster died in October at the age of 87 [his painting of the "Sea Venture" leading the 1609 relief fleet to Virginia prior to the hurricane which wrecked Sir George Somers' flagship in Bermuda is shown here].
Mr. Trimingham asked Mr. Foster — already an established marine artist in the UK — to hold an exhibit of his paintings in Bermuda to coincide with that year’s running of the Newport-Bermuda Ocean Yacht Race.
“The show was a great success, and in 1978 Foster and his wife went to live in Bermuda, where he would spend eight years producing paintings that constituted a record of the island’s maritime history,” the “Telegraph” reports. “These pictures are now in the collection of HSBC Bank of Bermuda, most of them on display at the Bermuda National Museum.”
Mr. Foster embarked on his career as a marine painter in the 1950s while working as an artist at the Gaumont British Animation film studios.
Elected to the Royal Society of Marine Artists in 1964, he and his wife returned to the UK in the 1980s where he continued painting historical marine subjects and began to construct detailed scale model ships.
Mr. Foster is survived by his wife Denise and their two daughters.
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