A3 (c. 16"x12") print on:
Permajet Gold Silk (£26)
Innova Soft-textured matt (£24)
I was expecting great things of the biggest boatyard on Giudecca, the large island on the
'other' side of the Grand Canal from where most visitors view Venice. But I was disappointed
- it was mostly given over to the sorts of plastic craft that you can see in any marina
anywhere in the world. I was expecting a scruffy yard where scruffy carpenters and grease
monkeys laboured over broken gondolas, worn-out traghettas, vaporettos and speed
boats. But only one gondola was being repaired at the time, although that appeared to be
more abandoned than anything else. It's more likely that they are repaired or maintained in
the small workshops scattered throughout Venice where they're actually built, and I didn't
have the time or the contacts to go seeking them out. But this pleasingly simple
composition caught my eye, the rudder on the back of a small barge-like boat, the like of
which I'd never seen on any of the canals of Venice (or, at least, not in daytime: in the
early hours all sorts of wonderful craft run supplies into the Venetian shops and businesses,
a different world that most visitors don't get to see).
I was expecting great things of the biggest boatyard on Giudecca, the large island on the 'other' side
of the Grand Canal from where most visitors view Venice. But I was disappointed - it was mostly
given over to the sorts of plastic craft that you can see in any marina anywhere in the world. I was
expecting a scruffy yard where scruffy carpenters and grease monkeys laboured over broken
gondolas, worn-out traghettas, vaporettos and speed boats. But only one gondola was being
repaired at the time, although that appeared to be more abandoned than anything else. It's more
likely that they are repaired or maintained in the small workshops scattered throughout Venice where
they're actually built, and I didn't have the time or the contacts to go seeking them out. But this
pleasingly simple composition caught my eye, the rudder on the back of a small barge-like boat, the
like of which I'd never seen on any of the canals of Venice (or, at least, not in daytime: in the early
hours all sorts of wonderful craft run supplies into the Venetian shops and businesses, a different
world that most visitors don't get to see).
A3 (c. 16"x12") print on:
Permajet Gold Silk (£26)
Innova Soft-textured matt (£24)