Neil Collins

Chris Amon | 1967 BOAC International 500 | Ferrari 330 P4 | Artwork

£595.00

An original watercolour painting

CHRIS AMON 1943 - 2016

Chris Amon battling it out with one of the Gulf GT40s at the 1967 BOAC International at Brands Hatch in a Ferrari 330 P4 he shared with Jackie Stewart.

Christopher Arthur Amon MBE was born 20 July 1943. He was a New Zealand motor racing driver. He was active in Formula One racing in the 1960s and 1970s, and is widely regarded as one of the best F1 drivers never to win a championship Grand Prix. His reputation for bad luck was such that fellow driver Mario Andretti once joked that "if he became an undertaker, people would stop dying".

Former Ferrari Technical Director Mauro Forghieri stated that Amon was "by far the best test driver I have ever worked with.

He had all the qualities to be a World Champion but bad luck just wouldn't let him be".

Apart from driving, Chris Amon also ran his own Formula One team for a short period in 1974. Away from Formula One, Amon had some success in sports car racing, teaming with co-driver Bruce McLaren to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans race in 1966.

In Formula One, Chris Amon took part in 96 Grands Prix, achieving 5 poles, leading 183 laps in 7 races, reaching the podium 11 times and scoring a total of 83 Championship points. Amon holds the record (13) for the most different makes of car raced by a Formula 1 World Championship driver.

Overall size (cm): 53.5 x 44.5 approx.

More About This Item
Type: Painting
Medium: Original Art - Watercolours
Style: Figurative, Illustrative, Realistic
Framed: Yes
Signed: Yes
Colour: Red, Grey
Year of Subject: 1967
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Neil Collins

Neil Collins watercolour artist works from old photographs and likes to research period colours to ensure that details are correct. Neil’s first national exhibition was at the RAC Art of Motoring in 2016 where his water colours found a ready market. Since then he has developed both his style and his client base. The clean lines of Neil’s pictures reflect a lifetime in design disciplines. The translucent and free flowing qualities of water colour give an immediacy to Neil’s work.

“I get an enormous amount of pleasure from researching and planning my paintings. Old photographs are fascinating, and I love to translate old black-and-white photographs into colour with my artwork. Every photograph has a narrative – sometimes obvious, sometimes hidden. I like to have this in my paintings". 

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