Fishermen of the North

Graphite and charcoal drawings on Mylar.

This is a series of images that I have been working on for the last few years and are based on early 20thC B&W photographs I came across in an unprepossessing  shoebox while I was wandering around the library of the Institute of Marine Research, Bergen, Norway. I was in Bergen for a month as a visiting artist at the Meteorological Institute - the birthplace of 20thC meteorology