The Ghost Ship 2
£750
Original – Acrylics, sand, wax and resin on canvas board, mounted and framed in white wood frame with natural wood trim, 60cm x 60cm (image is 40m x 40cm)
Part of my Ghost Ships Collection – The Ghost Ship 2 is a quietly haunting abstract work. Its largely monochrome palette gives it the reflective stillness of something suspended between past and present. Part of a mini‑series inspired by the rediscovery of the Endurance in the Antarctic seas in March 2022 — found astonishingly intact after 107 years beneath the ice — the painting channels both the ship’s fate and its remarkable survival. Shackleton’s choice of name feels prophetic here, a nod to both the vessel’s identity and its final resting place.
Constructed from acrylics, sand, beeswax and metallic chippings, the surface carries the tactile weight of lived history. The found materials root the work in the physical world of ships, ice and endurance, while the monochrome stripes evoke the stark contrasts of polar light and shadow. These elements together create a sense of something preserved yet unreachable — a vessel held in memory, suspended in time, neither fully present nor entirely lost.
The Ghost Ships becomes less a depiction of a wreck and more an evocation of its lingering spirit: resilient, silent, and still carrying the imprint of the journey that defined it.
The work can be hung using the hangings attached.
