So much for Poets, for the time being anyway. Today a Painter, a painter of small town fishing fleets.
Farewell John Bellany, acclaimed Painter
"I love to paint. At heart, however, I am a mariner."
wherever he lived he was drawn to the fisherman's bait
had new-found fame too, with painting Ian Botham's portrait...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10274525/John-Bellany.html
The story of almost a different guy...
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/sep/02/john-bellany
Some of his work...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/artists/john-bellany
The Botham portrait...
http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw07127/Ian-Botham?LinkID=mp05094&role=sit&rNo=0