This page will reflect my lifelong interest in all forms of motorised competition. My father taught me to drive, so I always laboured under the false notion that driving on the highway was a form of motorsport, and so there will be some paintings of road cars here as well as the racing cars and motorcycles which will make up most of the contner.
The first image is the painting of mine which more people have seen than any other. This is because the lovely people at the My Name’5 Doddie Foundation part funded my art PC, and so I sent them some paintings and commentary.
My sporting interests have always been largely restricted to motor racing, and so I included a painting of Jim Clark leading the 1965 Grand Prix at Zandvoort in the Netherlands. They created a press release which was picked up by the local newspaper, the Border Telegraph, who published an article including the painting of Jim Clark. To quote the article (in case the link ever stops working, “…. is a painting from my own sporting heritage. It is Jim Clark, the most naturally talented F1 driver of all time, winning the Dutch GP in 1965, when he went on to win the F1 driver’s championship for the second time. The car is the Lotus 33, the most beautiful F1 car ever made, so much so that there is one in the Stockholm Modern Art Museum. Jim is driving right at the edge of the possible, doing strange things with physics that few others have ever come close to, far ahead of the opposition, always dreaming of his Scottish Borders Farm near Duns, to which he would have happily retired to live in obscurity, had he lived long enough.”
And because I am continuously learning more as a painter, and also wishing to make the paintings easy to print, here is a new version from the same raw materials, plus some sky above the dunes of Zandvoort, this preview being A4 and 300 dpi. It should print well, in return for a donation to the motor neurone disease association or the equivalent in your country please. If there is any problem, for example the image you download being of a size other than 3508 pixels by 2480 pixels, or you wish to make a larger print than A4, please email me at drrickz@gmail.com and I will send you the correct sized painting.
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