Maxine Dodd Art

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London: The Boat Race, 2014

Hello! Following on swiftly from one of the world’s oldest horse races, came one of the oldest rowing races – the battle on the Thames between the crews of Oxford and Cambridge Universities. It is an international event these days and its 160th running attracted a huge audience, not only on TV but every square-inch of land on the riverbanks and bridges lining the route. People must have glimpsed the boats for a few seconds as they went by. The skies were grey, the river choppy and for Cambridge fans, a slip in the water barely five minutes into the race sealed their team’s fate. Oxford took advantage and streamed home to victory. Here a my drawings:

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Devastating slip for Cambridge
Choppy waters
Waiting in the rain
Waiting for the Boat Race
Big bow waves, Oxford stream to win
The 2014 Boat Race, waiting to start

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Maxine Dodd Art

I’m a mixed media visual artist working in Leicestershire in the UK. I trained in Fine Art using different media including oils and acrylics, but my recent work reflects my love of drawn media, especially pen, ink, watercolour and pastels. My theme is movement – My subjects are varied from landscape, animals, musicians, dancers and sport, especially cycling. The unifying feature of all these subjects is that they are constantly changing – there is movement and energy everywhere.

5 responses to “London: The Boat Race, 2014”

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    gastronomialadelizia

    Reblogged this on Gastronomia La Delizia.

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    Maxine Dodd – Artist

    Thanks Sheila, it did look cold on that day!

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