Jack Woods

My background is civil engineering and in latter years involvement as a volunteer crewman on tall ships, with many years spent sailing in small yachts, or sailing dinghies.

I have been painting, maritime subjects, for over 30 years with a particular focus on some of the small yachts that had voyaged over long distances before the advent of all the modern navigation and safety technology. My many sailing experiences have given me a good appreciation of the challenges of painting the ever changing moods of the sea

The wide range of my maritime art works are shown on my website together with historical information on many of the paintings.

Education

Although primarily self taught, I have also researched and learnt from the many publications by marine artists. My marine paintings have been selected in 16 of the last 19 juried national maritime exhibitions which were held annually at the historical Mission to Seafarers building in Melbourne up to 2023. I was honoured in 2024 to be recognised as a Fellow of the Australian Society of Marine Artists.