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Rain Later, Good: Painting the Shipping Forecast
Rain Later, Good: Painting the Shipping Forecast
Rain Later, Good: Painting the Shipping Forecast
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Rain Later, Good: Painting the Shipping Forecast

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Rain Later, Good is the award winning story of Peter Collyer's extraordinary journey around the Shipping Forecast areas and has been a bestseller since first publication.

The artist's brilliant and detailed paintings reproduced actual size, offer a series of images which help conjure up the most mythical locations, whilst his delightful idiosyncratic text provides a wealth of fascinating insights. He introduces us to the people who live and work in these areas, and passes on snippets of tantalising information to give a powerful impression of the place and convey a real feeling of being there. The beautiful paintings which come from Peter Collyer's travels truly capture the spirit of these wild and isolated spots.

This is a book to be treasured, and its reissue will be welcomed by Peter's many admirers.


'A very remarkable painter. His work is simply stunning with an observed intensity which makes him very special indeed.' Chris Beetles in The Daily Telegraph

'The most delightful and unexpected book I've encountered this year... a wonderful book.' John Naughton, The Times

LanguageEnglish
Release dateSep 12, 2013
ISBN9781408159002
Rain Later, Good: Painting the Shipping Forecast
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Peter Collyer

Peter Collyer studied fine art in Newport, Monmouthshire and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Brother of the Art Workers Guild. His other bestselling books include South by Southwest and Encompassing Britain.

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    An inexplicable attachment to the shipping forecast - the four daily reports on weather at sea that go out on Radio 4 - is quintessentially British. It doesn’t matter that most of us live inland and that cheap flights have made going out in a boat a rarity; we like to know what’s going on at sea. Even changing the time of broadcast resulted in a deluge of complaints - there is no discussion of cancelling it, although most ships have access to up-to-the-minute information on-board from other sources.This coffee table book is delightful, channelling the national attachment and matching it with evocative watercolour paintings and affectionate travel notes that give you itchy feet to see places for yourself. I had no idea that there was an Open Air Rain Museum (tongue-in-cheek much?) in Bergen (or that it rains 290 days of the year there) and there are similarly entertaining notes for most ports of call. I rather regret that the author didn’t follow through on his whim to add food notes for breakfast and fish and chips forecasts for each area. However, there is a stunning painting of the sea or coast (complete with shipping forecast for the day) and a secondary painting or line drawing representing an aspect of local life for every current (and two past) shipping forecast regions and coastal weather stations. Given the Shipping Forecast covers the broader seas around Britain, this is a tiny view into the coastal life of Norway, Iceland, the Faeroes, the UK, Ireland, France, Holland, Spain and France - as well as our offshore islands - and amply illustrates the incredible variety and beauty of our coasts.I could wish that the images were bigger or that the book was landscape to match their format (rather than square, reducing their size). But the hazy views of light rippling on waves and suggestions on the horizon are enchanting. Don’t expect anything iconic to separate the sea areas - one patch of sea looks much like another - but for lovers of wind and wave, this is a treat. For the coastal paintings, this book reminded me that I do love watercolours after all (although I wouldn't choose to put them on my wall), and that there's a lot of variety in the type of painting you can produce with them. There's some beautiful work in here, and as it's often of my favourite subjects (cliffs, mountains, sea, clouds), I'm not biased at all.

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