Unsinkable Sam Neutral Exhibited at the Mall Galleries

Exhibited at the Mall Galleries

This painting was originally about meditation and aligning the seven main chakras - but it changed course

Guy Lipscombe was a graphic artist and illustrator but also a sought-after portrait painter

I absolutely adore them but they are rare and I expect one day soon a cleverer and richer dealer will root out a stash on the continent and make them very expensive overnight

She acknowledges neither the viewer nor the gulls circling raucously overhead

Unsinkable Sam Neutral Exhibited at the Mall GalleriesAfter the sinking of the Bismarck in 1941, British sailors found Sam clinging to a floating plankthe only survivor rescued by the HMS Cossack. Just months later, the Cossack was struck and sunk by a torpedo. Sam survived and was brought safely to the shores of Gibraltar. His final post was on board the famous aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal but the ship was torpedoed and Sam was found "angry but quite unharmed" clinging to a piece of debris. After the