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Welcome to Naval Broadsides, a website which showcases the naval art of Ross Watton and offers for sale the highest quality giclee prints.

Ross is well known for his work on the Anatomy of the Ship books, published by Conway Publishing. His paintings have graced the covers of many books, both fiction and non-fiction. He has also illustrated numerous other publications, on a wide range of subjects and been commissioned to paint a series of warships for the Discovery Channel.

Throughout two decades, Ross has designed hundreds of postage stamps for many countries: one of his most recent being for the Falkland Islands, commemorating the Centenary of Naval Aviation in 2009. For over 20 years, HMS Belfast, the World War Two cruiser, moored in the Pool of London, has displayed his large, hand painted illustration of the ship, showing every compartment.

Since 2007, he has been responsible for the production of the highly acclaimed centre page cutaway illustrations for the Royal Navy newspaper, the Navy News. He has also painted several ship portraits, for Commanding Officers. Most notably in 2008, he painted HMS Cumberland and provided 550 mounted giclee prints for the ship's company and guests, to mark the ship's rededication. He can be commissioned to do such work at very affordable rates.

As an ex-Royal Navy serviceman, he has an authoritative knowledge of the subject. Equally, these paintings reveal his passion for the ships, the sea and the medium in which he portrays them.

Naval Broadsides offers prints in the following sizes:
A4 (210 x 297 mm). A3 (297 x 420 mm) A2 (420 x 594 mm)

10% of profits will be donated to the Royal Naval Benevolent Trust