This study of motor and steam drifters was inspired by a photograph, by Jack Peterson, I saw in the Shetland Museum archive.  It was from a time when hundreds of these boats congregated in Lerwick harbour every morning during the summer herring season, sailing again in the late afternoon or early evening to engage in the overnight drift-net fishery.

The painting is 36 x 24 inches in size, and was painted in oils on hardboard.  It was bought by a website visitor.