Paintings for sale Grand Union Canal near Marsworth Buckinghamshire England UK.

Narrowboat art. Creating art from a narrowboat GICLÉE PRINTS ORIGINALS. Half completed piece but hope you will enjoy it. Narrowboat art also know as canal narrow boat art bargeware or folk art is hand painted gift ware which is ideal for gifts presents for people interested in canal narrow boat boaters barge ware folk style art.

While the practice declined as commercial use of the canals dwindled it has seen something of a revival in recent times with the emergence of leisure boating. Little Venice Regents Canal Poster London Narrowboat Art Houseboat Gift Grand Union Maida Vale Boating Barging Canalware Print BucketListPrintShop. Paul I received my print this morning it is absolutely stunning.

Braunston Marina Grand Union Canal Its title is somewhat misleading. Become a patron of Narrowboat Life Unlocked today. How did a new folk art arise at a time when the Industrial Revolution was killing off traditional crafts.

All artwork is signed mounted and ready for framing. Oct 2 2020 - Explore Peggy Joness board Canal Boat Art followed by 825 people on Pinterest. Although both roses and castles feature in the designs so too do a number of other flowers sometimes real sometimes imaginary cottages churches rivers and lakes - anything in fact that could be part of.

Roses and Castles is the popular name for the traditional paintwork of the narrow boats bunches of roses and medieval castles being common features. The most powerful visual impression made by a traditionally decorated narrow boat is of colour lots of colours carefully contrasted in tone painted all over the boat in increasing layers of complexity. Narrowboat decoration with roses and castle themes are a reasonably common sight on todays canals.

There are similar styles of folk art in Scandinavia Germany Turkey and Bangladesh. Canal boat Art on a narrowboat called Halcyon Waters. What on earth was so special about it.