Ian Marshall
'JEANNE d'ARC, Toulon'

Ian Marshall
'USS WAMPANOAG'

Ian Marshall's Flying Boats
'China Clipper'


Ian Marshall
'Presidential Passage'

Ian Marshall
'FS DUPY de LOME'

Ian Marshall
'USS WISCONSIN'

Ian Marshall
'The Agadir Incident'

Scottish painter Ian Marshall's fluid watercolors need no introduction to fans of nineteenth and early Twentieth Century naval history. He is widely regarded as an authority on the subject. His moving and detailed watercolors of well-known and obscure naval actions and vessels have been featured in three celebrated volumes, British Capital Ships, Armored Ships, and Ironclads and Paddlers. His book Passage East was published to critical acclaim. It features the elegant steamships that linked Europe to the splendor of the Orient during the 19th and 20th century and includes a commentary by well-known marine historian John Maxtone-Graham.

After 30 years as an internationally renowned architect Ian brings an unparalleled understanding of scale and perspective to his work, so that while remaining "painterly" his work retains a realism and detail that is unmatched among today's modern ship painters. Painting in the tradition of the great British watercolorists, he uses the fluidity and subtle colors of the medium to create emotional representations of what in someone else's hands could be a dry subject. The fact that he's painting water with a water-based medium is something not lost on him. Of watercolor, Ian says, "It lends itself to capturing the ephemeral changing effects of weather, sea and sky." Whether painting the Grand Harbour, Malta or the Suez Canal, his extraordinary pictures capture moments in history with an intriguing and subtle beauty that has made him one of the most respected marine artists working today.

His Principal Exhibitions include:

Plymouth City Art Gallery, England, 1986 
Portsmouth Civic Centre, England, 1987 
Imperial War Museum, London, H.M.S. Belfast. 1987 
Edinburgh Festival, Scotland, RIAS Gallery, 1987 
Lloyds of London, 1987 
Royal Naval Museum, Portsmouth, England, 1990 
Union League Club, New York, Navy League of NY, 1990 
U.S. Navy Museum, Washington, DC, 1991 & 1994 
Royal Society of Marine Artists' Annual Exhibition, London 1988, 1993, 1994 
Mystic International Exhibition, Mystic Seaport, CT, 1991, 1993-1997 
J. Russell Jinishian Gallery, Fairfield, CT 1996 
U.S. Naval Academy Museum, Annapolis, MD, 1994 
Maine Maritime Museum, Bath, ME, 1995 
The Tryon & Swann Gallery, London, 1991,1994,1997

Public Collections:

Royal Naval Museum, Portsmouth, England 
Royal Scottish United Services Museum, Scotland 
Lloyds of London, England 
U.S. Naval Shipbuilding Museum, Quincy, MA 
U.S. Naval Academy Museum, Annapolis, MD 
National Museum, Botswana

Ian Marshall
'Desert Storm'