PAINTINGS – Cars etc
Being what was once known as a “commercial artist” in my working life I have painted various subjects for many years mainly as a hobby, some with success, others not so, now you can be the judge.
For many years I sold my paintings through the Luvane Gallery in Goodall Street which was housed in a building that I knew well, Walsall School of Art. The gallery was run by Nigel Tonks who later passed the business to his nephew on his retirement but sadly things didn’t go to plan and the gallery closed around 2012.
As much of my working life was spent illustrating technical subjects it will be of no great surprise to see this also crept into my hobby. In recent years I have been painting steam locomotives but prior to that I produced paintings of cars and was a member of the Guild of Motoring Artists, this new page is dedicated to those paintings. The Luvane Gallery sold virtually all I could paint on that subject, when the gallery closed only two automotive paintings remained, sadly they are now in my loft!
All of the images shown are the copyright of John Griffiths.
Sometimes WordPress surprises me! One day no captions were appearing under each image, today they are, great! However the spacing problem is still occurring, think I will live with that though.
Alfa Romeo P3, Monaco Grand Prix 1934
Marlboro BRM P160B, Monaco GP 1972, Jean Pierre Beltoise driving
Ferrari 156, ‘Shark Nose’, 1961 Belgian GP driven by Phil Hill
Ferrari Dino 1958, the race details of this painting elude me sadly
Ferrari 312PB, 1973 Targa Florio driven by Arturo Merzario
Ferrari 330 P4
Close up of a 1950s Maserati GP car
Jackie Stewart and Matra MS80, Montjuich 1969
Mercedes W196 of Juan Manuel Fangio (10) and Stirling Moss (12), 1955 British GP at Aintree
Silk Cut Jaguar XJR-8, Le Mans 1987
Spice SE88 Group C2 sports car, 1988
Car portrait of MGA sports car
One of my favourite cars, a French small boot 1951 Citroen 11BL Legere
A Citroen Light Fifteen, built at Slough
Another Paris built Citroen 11BL Legere
Nigel Mansell, Williams and Alain Prost, Ferrari, Monaco GP
Citroen Type 23 lorry from the 1920s, this one housed a fairground organ
Peugeot 405T16, Dakar Rally 1989
Close up of a Brabham-BMW BT52
Close up of Ferrari F1 car c.1998
The ‘Wizard of Oz’, Wayne Gardner on his Rothmans Honda 1992
Walsall Life 