Apologies for the double post, accidentally published a draft, here’s what I meant to say…
My painting of a Buoy Maintenance vessel, which obligingly sat still actually maintaining a buoy while I painted. Thanks to Norman for the photo and his friend for the ship info. Despite the care my favourite part is the turps drips in the bottom right. 
Here’s one of Battery Point, Portishead from later the same day showing a fisherman sat at the base of the lighthouse. He caught around five cod while I painted. It was much colder than it looked and my hand was a frozen boxing glove by the time I’d finished but I was pleased I stuck with it.
Thanks for all the likes for this post. Hopefully I’ll get more chances to go out and paint and blog as the year warms up.
Hello Ian! I read of so many brave painters working outside in the cold. Have never tried it myself even if I’d had plenty of opportunities, as I’m living in Finland 🙂 Been a little too comfty I guess. Really nice work there!
Thanks Heidi. I follow the work of Arto Isotalo who is also Finnish and seems to paint terrifyingly cold scenes. On the plus side you have a much greater opportunity to paint beautiful snow scenes than we do here.