Books
Here are my autobiographic, illustrated publications. Some might say work-related. I love painting and adventuring in small boats. Nice work if you can get it. No.6 is half written (Atlantic to North Sea). In need of pictures and a couple of years of not rushing. Please contact me for information on prices.
Down the Bosporous Without an Easel
9 1/2″ x 8 1/4″, Perfect bind (soft-back with waterproof covering front and back)
A painting trip around West Turkey. 25 colour reproductions, half size of the original watercolours, are reproduced. They were painted on location in one sitting. Orignally just notes for an exhibition, it led to the ‘on purpose’ Cornwall trilogy.
Epic Voyage, Tamar to Truro
10″ x 9″, Hardback (32 full page illustrations)
The first part of the trilogy (It was to be a complete entity – a circumnavigation was not envisaged). The plan was to sail on summer breezes.The enjoyment of remote, silent creeks was ‘paid for’ with bizarre, and sometimes frightening, experiences. Book illustrations available.
Epic, Onwards Falmouth Penzance St Ives
10″ X 9″, Hardback (22 full page illustrations)
Sold out – but book illustrations available. The voyage around Cornwall in the eleven foot dinghy, EPIC, continues in this second volume. Seeking adventure, the solitary sailor ventured into tangled creeks, and with trepidation rounded rugged headlands (though this volume is sold out, that section of the voyage is contained in ‘Red Admiral, A Voyage Around Cornwall’).
Epic Over and Out, Newquay Padstow Bude Launceston
10″ x 9″, Hardback (22 full page illustrations)
The third part of the circumnavigation trilogy. The Atlantic and overland to the upper Tamar. Book illustrations available.
8 1/2″ x 6″ x 1″
An illustrated, autobiographic story by the painter, small-time dinghy adventurer, David Weston of Mevagissey. The theme is an improbable circumnavigation of Cornwall. Thirty three colour reproductions of his work and many ‘deviations’ explain his arrival at painting, boating and Cornwall. Click the link below for the first chapter of Red Admiral a Voyage Around Cornwall, including a watercolour painting, an oil painting and an illustrated map of Epic’s circumnavigation around the Cornish coast.
You are welcome to download and enjoy this preview of my new book:
Download Red Admiral, A Voyage Around Cornwall – Chapter 1
The following are excerpts from the book:
“The GCE year was a time of impatient expectation. Though really at school, we were creeping from our chrysalises. Still in limbo, we felt the presence of our destiny – downstairs. Prior to mutating, we glimpsed paint splattered older students moving huge canvasses into their tangy turpentine lairs. … contented ourselves with poster paints. … life-room door closed … curb imaginations … pretty, dressing-gowned models flitted by.”
“For much of the next hour my gaze was drawn to the Mount. Gradually, the mysterious form dominated the background hills. Architectural details on the summit became more defined. Behind me, the distant giant dishes of Goonhilly Downs were visible in the clear air. Fascinating as the radio telescope dishes were, they did not hold my attention for long. Ahead, the dramatic structure atop the steep-sided island demanded precedence…”
Download St Michaels Mount excerpt
"Ant was afloat in the Barbican Basin. Seventeen-foot Bermudan sloop (what a captivating name for class of boat). She sat forlornly in an oily backwater. Her once white topsides were yellowed and peeling … Sitting on a mouldy plastic bunk cover, I inspected bilge water slurping below a lifted section of cabin floor. It was all and more than my heart desired.”
“We listened with crushed emotions as the ex coal merchant explained the meaning of the spurious sign. … ushered us up to a vast old net loft … four large windows overlooking the harbour and out to sea … to a fledgling painter, pure, heart fluttering paradise.”