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I hope someone can help although I have not got much to go on.

I have five small water colours of Penguins that inhabit the Falkland Islands and South Georgia. They are exquisitely done, extremely detailed and very life like. They each depict a different species of Penguin in small groups of two's and three's.

They appear to have been mounted recently and a torn price label on the back of one has the word "NAFFI".

He/she is obviously a talented wild life artist who perhaps resides there or was stationed there,

Although they are signed I cannot make anything out of the signature otherwise I would research on line.

If someone has seen others like this or has any ideas I would appreciate their thoughts,

Thanks

Peter.

NAFFI.
"The Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes is an organisation created by the British government in 1921 to run recreational establishments needed by the British Armed Forces, and to sell goods to servicemen and their families. "Wikipedia

Try the Goggles App

Pete, why not upload a picture, so we can see, somebody might know of the artist

I'm guessing it's not
http://www.jackiegarner.co.uk/falklands.htm

Thank you very much for your replies.

Hi Justin, your suggestion prompted me to do a comprehensive search on Google. I have used every permutation of artist, Falkland islands, Penguins, wildlife, NAAFI I can think of and none of the signatures or artwork match. I have even contacted the Falklands NAAFI and drawn a blank.

Hi Andrew, that artist work crops up often and FWIW and IMHO these water colours are the best I have seen

Hi Steve, uploading a pic' or two makes much sense. Unfortunately, I am not yet capable of that but I am getting there.
If I can inlist the help of my grandson, who is much more IT savvy than me, and follow the instructions on the FF, I will try and do that.

Once again thank you all very much.

Peter.

Peter,
I realise that you have just done a google search, but with the "Goggles" app (if you have a "smart"phone) you can photograph an image and it will search for any trace of it online, work a shot, if you've got the phone!

Justin, thanks for that, I did misunderstand as you

By coincidence my daughter has just gifted me my first "smart" phone I will give it ago as soon as I remove from it's box.


Thankyou for taking the time to reply.


Peter.

You can also use the google image search facility on a desktop computer. Just go to the google home page, click on images and then on the camera icon in the search box and upload a jpeg

Hang on, not so fast. I need to switch it on first

Not sure about other browsers, but this is a really handy feature in Chrome, just right-click on any image and select this option from the resulting pop-up box: Search Google for image

An experienced 'birding' customer of mine was offered a freebie trip to the islands to help with counting, netting & ringing birds, etc. at the expense of the RAF, presumably. So a talented photographer/artist could easily while away evenings painting and then donate them to the NAAFI stores to help repay some of the immense costs involved.
My friend had a whale of a time, needless to say. Ex army so happy to rough it.
Just a thought...

HI john and thanks I will try and give that a go btw I am so envious of your computer skills

Hi Bobble thanks that sounds very plausible

In return for taking my two grandsons "Crabbing" today at Wells-Next-The-Sea, my daughter has promised to come and photo the water colours and email them to me.

I will then take up David's kind offer to upload them to the forum after I forward them to him

More importantly, the two little lads landed 22 crabs and 2 Shrimps between them

Thank you for that David

I have just logged on so I can only see five brown blocks at the moment

As soon as I can see the pictures I will provide a little more info.

For people who can see them and are interested I used Arqadia Silver 8358 and Arqadia cream 8213. The moiulding is one found in a bargain bundle, small gold with a slate/blue line.

Peter.

All five images have up loaded now and are as follows;

1 - 2 x Magellanic Penguins
2 - 4 x King Penguins
3 - 2 x Rockhoppers with a chick
4 - 2 x King PenguinsLooking
5 - 3 x Genico Penguins

Looking at our photo's I can see they are not good enough to show the signature or enough detail. I am sorry about that, it was our first attempt, will try and do better next time.

For anyone interested in work shop layouts mine is around a 7' square work bench with plenty of draw space underneath. Clockwise I have a small s/s sink with hot water, phone, Morso, Cassese 89, glass rack, first of two plan drawers with mount cutter on top, table/chop saw and a second plan drawer.

Peter.