JAMES DODDS COLLECTION - please click on an image for details.

Boy Building Boat

Man with an Oar

Catching the Wildman

Aft Futtock Frames

Taken Home

Goddess Surprising a Boatman

Southwold

Rowing

Winkle Brig

 

 

Early Morning Tide

Two Boats

Whale

Pioneer

Pioneer in Frame

Pioneer at Sea

New Pilot Cutters

Swivel

Twisted Shackle

Aldeburgh Beach Boat

Longlines

LastShips,Cooke's Wivenhoe

Brightlingsea Smack Dock

Blue Boat

 

Pioneer Looking Aft

Helmsman

Wivenhoe, Past and Present

West Mersea

Cromer Beach

Aldeburgh Beach

James Dodds was born in the east coast fishing town of Brightlingsea, and trained as a shipwright in Maldon. He then studied painting at Chelsea and the Royal College of Art, London. He has also conceived, illustrated and hand-produced a series of artists books. 
 
James regularly enjoys one man shows at Messums in Cork Street London.  He had a major retrospective show, "Shipshape", at firstsite at The Minories in Colchester in November 2001. This show subsequently toured at Whitstable, Herne Bay, Frome, the Isle of Wight, Barnard Castle, the National Maritime Museum of Cornwall, the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich. Great Yarmouth and Hartlepool.  
 
His work has been purchased by Britten-Pears Library, Aldeburgh; Victoria and Albert Museum; Clacton & Rochford Hospitals; Chelmsford and Essex Museums; Ipswich Borough Council, Museums and Galleries; Colchester Borough Council; Horniman Museum, London and many private collectors.
In 2007 he was given an Honorary Doctorate by Essex University for his contribution to the community as an artist.