G M McKINLAY, SPITFIRE CRASH AT NEWHAVEN 12/07/1944
Fine art composition
By Marc Heaton
As discussed in the earlier post. The painted composition aims to portray an accurate account of the moments leading up to the young pilot's crash. Due to a lack of visual documentation relative to the incident, l have placed the Spitfire chasing down the V1 heading in from the coast, just near the breakwater. This helps to place the incident directly within Newhaven.
I have painted the composition monochrome because l feel using colour would possibly glorify the event/incident, which was never my intention. I wanted to document the young pilot's bravery and present it as a sort of article within a newspaper, factual and without dramatisation. I hope the painting does the young pilot justice and acts as a reminder of the sacrifice that generation gave during those hard fought years.