THE FOLLOWING SIX PAINTINGS WERE ACCEPTED FOR THE GUILD OF AVIATION ARTISTS' 2010 AVIATION PAINTINGS OF THE YEAR EXHIBITION

"FLIGHT OF FANCY - TYPHOONS"

Oil on 60cm x 40cm canvas. Frame size 72cm x 52cm.

Two Hawker Typhoon IBs of No 3 Squadron RAF (circa 1943) fly in fanciful formation with a Eurofighter Typhoon, also of No 3 Sqadron, of today.

The motto of No 3 Sqadron - the first RAF Squadron to be established - is "Tertius Primus Erit" ("The Third Shall be First").

"FLIGHT OF FANCY - TORNADOS"

Oil on 60cm x 40cm canvas. Framed size 72cm x 52cm.

Panavia Tornado F.3 of No.5 Squadron RAF flies in fanciful formation with a prototype Hawker Tornado powered by a 1,706HP Rolls Royce Vulture II engine. Although several prototypes were built, trouble with the Vulture engine resulted in the Tornado giving way to the Hawker Typhoon.

"SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND"

Oil on 60cm x 40cm canvas. Frame size 72cm x 51.5cm.

Supermarine Spitfire MkIB ready and waiting to be scrambled at an airfield - 'somewhere in England' - while a kingfisher ignores the 'NO FISHING' sign in the Autumn of 1940.

"SUNDERLAND SUNSET"

Oil on 76cm x 38cm canvas. Frame size 88cm x 49.5cm.

AVRO ANSON AT DUXFORD

Oil on 25cm x 36cm canvas - Framed size 47.4 cm x 37 cm.

Painted on site during a Guild of Aviation Artists' painting day at Duxford .

"SUNNY SALLY 'B'"

Oil on 30cm x 25cm canvas. Frame size 42cm x 37cm

Painted on site during a Guild of Aviation painting day at Duxford, 2009.