HMAS Cerberus (HMVS)
Jack painted this rendition of the HMVS Cerberus for a Save the Cerberus fund raising exhibition and it features on the Cerberus website at https://www.cerberus.com.au/art_exhibition.html with prints available as part of their fund raising campaign.
At the time the title was “Cerberus steaming down Port Phillip in late 1890s“
- About Woods, Jack
Jack Woods who was born and grew up in Melbourne, is a Fellow of the Australian Society of Marine Artists and has been an exhibiting member of the Society for over 25 years. He is also an exhibiting member of the Australian Guild of Realist Artists and the Victorian Artists Society.
Jack mainly exhibits locally including at the national ANL Maritime Art exhibition which was held annually at the historic Mission to Seafarers building in Melbourne up until 2023, where his paintings were selected in 15 of their 19 juried exhibitions. Prints of his paintings of historic yachts are also displayed in several overseas maritime museums.
Jack’s interest in marine art came through his many years of sailing activities, which included a voyage in 1971 in an 8m timber ketch with three others, from Melbourne to Noumea, via Lord Howe Island and then to New Zealand, and a 10 year period as a volunteer crewman, and qualified coxswain on the Tallship Enterprize. His many sailing experiences have given him a good appreciation of the challenges of painting the ever-changing moods of the sea.
Although primarily self-taught Jack is a versatile artist who paints a wide range of marine subjects in oils and acrylics. He researched and learnt from the many publications by marine artists and was fortunate in that his civil engineering job involved residing in both the USA and U.K with time to visit some of the museums with works of renowned marine artists.
https://www.marineartists.au/jack-woods
https://vasgallery.org.au/Jack-Woods~68784