Water Street NYC 2000 Roy Hammond

Roy Hammond watercolour.(1934-)

Sorry straying off comic art again, but I thought it might be appreciated on here.

Roy Hammond was born on 25th December 1934 near the River Thames in London’s East End. In 1939 his family moved from their home in London for safety reasons and settled in Essex with his grandmother.

In 1955 after serving in the RAF, Roy started work for the Ford Motor Company and trained as a design engineer. In the early seventies he started painting and realised that he preferred this way of working.

He joined the Wapping Group of Artists* in 1993 and they meet on a weekly basis, along the Thames.

*The Wapping Group is the last proper artists’ society left in England. It was established in 1946 and has over the last sixty years, faithfully recorded in a variety of styles and techniques, the changing face of the River Thames. There are currently 25 members of the group.