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The Lightning by Humphrey Ocean, oil on canvas

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, FA00991

A decade after his musical explorations with singer Ian Dury’s band Kilburn and the High Roads, painter Humphrey Ocean was commissioned by the RAF Museum to represent the English Electric Lightning F6 aircraft at RAF Binbrook just before its withdrawal from service.

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Hawker Harrier by Bryan Organ, oil on canvas

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, FA05592

Two years after the RAF Museum opened to visitors, it commissioned Bryan Organ, known for his depictions of famous people, to paint a ‘portrait’ of the Hawker Siddeley Harrier aircraft. Several years later, he also drew the Museum’s founding Director, Dr John Tanner.

Hawker Harrier by Bryan Organ, oil on canvas, Bryan Organ and the Redfern Gallery / RAF Museum

Study for the Lightning by Humphrey Ocean, graphite on paper

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, FA00917

‘The project spanned two years, beginning in January 1987 after the Museum’s then Curator of Art, the late Tony Harold, got in touch. He had liked my painting Lord Volvo and His Estate (1982, Wolverhampton Art Gallery) and thought about how I might translate my treatment of the automobile and men into depicting RAF aircraft and crew.

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