H.M.S. Vanguard and R.M.S. Queen Elizabeth

Project Description

With this painting I have captured the moment the R.M.S. Titanic struck an iceberg this is the result of much research, it is inspired by the most recent breakthrough which suggests a weather anomaly may have made bad conditions even worse that fateful night.

It now looks likely Titanic had sailed into a mirage situation where the horizon was elevated above the iceberg; this was caused by warm air coming into contact with cold, making any chance of seeing the burg in time to turn impossible.

This is not the final answer on what happened and it is impossible for us to know exactly what happened but what we do know for sure is that an iceberg sent the finest of Edwardian engineering to the bottom of the Atlantic with huge loss of life.

Size 16”-12” 40cm-30cm