Rod Slater

Of the many interests and passions that have come and gone in Rod’s life, art and sailing have remained. Pen and ink along with oil were his early mediums of choice. However, while confined below deck in his yacht “Bontekoe” during a bad spell of weather in Tonga, he began experimenting with watercolours in earnest.

“Hours of watching the sea on long passages combined with the numerous yachts I’d clambered aboard had burned images into my creative conscience that looked for release.” He discovered the freedom that watercolours gave him for creating the curved hulls of ships, the fine lines of the sales and the curve of their form filled with air. It was the water colours that made those sails come to life on the paper. He has continued to be fascinated with capturing the fluidity and depth of water colour using water colours as a medium.

“This provides an unlimited source of challenging opportunities for artistic expression and I acknowledge that I have only begun to dip below the surface of this potential.”

Rod has also translating the beautiful form of motorcycles and their gleaming chrome into artworks using acrylic paints.

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