In The Media

Here is a selection of some of the articles, books or newspapers that Keith’s work has been involved in.

 

Check back soon for a summary of Keith’s many articles in Flypast magazine over the years.

 

Some examples of when Keith’s work reached the media…

 

Keith’s most recent commission in the media, completed in 2012, was for the Dutch museum, Bevrijdingsmuseum Zeeland, as a tribute to the crew of the Lancaster PB667 of the 7th squadron.
 
The original was presented at the official opening ceremony of Keith’s annual exhibition in 2012.
Pathfinder Of Zeeland
The painting shows the Lancaster Mk3 in the 7th squadron Pathfinder Force livery while flying over a delta-area at sunrise.
 
The plane with the sign MG-Q (Queeny) crashed on March 20, 1945 on its return flight from a mission to Recklinghausen in the Ruhr district.
Above Schouwen-Duiveland the plane was struck by Flak artillery and wasn’t able to return to England. In the attempt to make an emergency landing a wing broke off and all crew members lost their lives.

In May 2005 Keith’s work was again chosen for the ‘Daily Mail’ official 60th Anniversary VE/VJ Day paintings and produced a collection of three Wedgewood plates depicting a Spitfire, Hurricane and Lancaster.

Wedgewood Plate
Wedgewood Plate

The Daily Mail commissioned a limited edition print to raise funds for the Thames Embankment, ‘Battle of Britain Memorial’.
D Mail Article_320
In 2000, Keith was commissioned by the ‘Daily Mail’ to produce a painting of a Spitfire, ‘Tribute To The Few’, which they reproduced as a limited edition print in order to raise money for the ‘Battle of Britain Memorial’ to be built on the Thames Embankment, London.
 
All 2000 copies of the print sold out within twenty hours…raising £20,000 for the fund.

In 2000, Keith’s painting, ‘Any Gum Chum’ was used as the book cover to a children’s novel.

“Homers Luck, (The Story of the Dog that Flew)” by Melissa Milich
 
Story of Homer the dog who flew five combat missions in 1945 with the 358th Bomb Squadron, alongside Capt Lawrence Poole and his crew, and was awarded the Air Medal.

Several of Keith’s paintings were used by Roger Freeman for his book ‘The Mighty Eighth In Art’.
 
The collation of 75 evocative artworks on WWII’s 8th Air Force, includes 4 of Keith’s paintings.

The Mighty Eighth In Art - Roger Freeman
The Mighty Eighth In Art – Roger Freeman
Illustrated with colour paintings of the US 8th Air Force in action in World War II, this book features air combat scenes, on-board situations, images of the British bases, and the aircraft themselves, reliving the atmosphere of an awesome air war. Some of the artists actually flew with the ‘Eighth’. The volume is illustrated by artists from both America and Britain.
 
Weidenfield Military 1996, 160 pages, hardcover, 978-1854093127.