Paintings - HMCS Saint John
     
Introduction

Saint John Visit

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Reunions

Paintings-1

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U-247

U-309

Exhibit-1986

Exhibit-2003

Signals

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Dedication - Douglas J. Wright

  

We now have six paintings of HMCS Saint John.


HMCS Saint John depth charging U-247

A limited number of these signed prints is still available at $ 100 each. Contact the artist directly.


George Nott

Marine artist George S. Nott was born in 1932 in Durham, Ontario. Being a child of the Great Depression bred in him a strong determination to leave his mark in life. His early examples of having artistic talents, coupled with encouragement from his grade teachers, made him choose painting as his life's goal. During World War Two he composed anti-Hitler cartoons which his mother sent to his father stationed in Britain. Some of these cartoons were published in the British press, delighting and bolstering the spirits of the British.

Perhaps it was this early taste of success that fostered his desire to paint works of historical military significance. Another factor would be that George comes from a long ancestral line of painters and military men.

George was a member of the Royal Canadian Navy during the Cold War. Although he was in Naval Intelligence, the navy hierarchy chose to utilize his artistic prowess (even up to this present day). In September, 1991, he was elected as an official war artist by the Defence Department in Ottawa. He was never called upon to document any heated war front, despite having volunteering for the Gulf War.

Today his work can be found in many parts of the world. "Speaking on a domestic front, and given the seemingly low esteem held for artists, one is compelled to broaden their horizons by going outside of national borders. I have found in my career that countries like Britain and the USA are more history-conscious. After all, didn't modern man learn much of ancient civilizations through the discovery of cave wall drawings? I'm of the opinion that artists are morally duty-bound to record history. I feel that I am helping to fill a void created by today's school systems".

Regency Towers 301 Heatherway, Bldg. 3, #511,
Saint John, N.B. Canada E2J 3R7
696-8450
  

To see another painting, go to the page on Exhibits 1986.




HMCS Saint John during her
North Russia convoy

This painting of HMCS Saint John was done in the early 1980s by prominent Saint John artist, Ray Butler. The painting is on the wall of the Main Brace Naval Veterans Association building on Main Street, Saint John.