Changing Deckchairs by Chris Orr MBE RA


Title Changing Deckchairs
Artist Chris Orr MBE RA (i)
Medium Engraving (i)
Numbered A/P 1/5
Size (WxH)  101 x 72cm
Framed No
Ref. No 24579
Price: £850.00

Changing Deckchairs


And they went to sea in a sieve…..(The Jumblies that is.)
All at sea.
Tale of a tub.
Dropping the Pilot.
The Gravy Boat.
A life on the Ocean wave.
The wreck of the raft of the Medusa.
Water, water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink.
The Titanic.
That sinking feeling.
Oil on troubled water.
The gravy boat.
The fighting Temairare.
Ship shape,
The slow boat to China.
Dirty British Coaster with a salt cake smoke stack…
Sit down, yer rockin the boat!
Rats leaving a sinking ship.
Port out. Starboard home.

I have worked my passage, still at it after 80 years. Working to stay alive. Without work the
ship will sink. Man the pumps! In the Wasteland Elliot says the river is within us but the sea
is surrounds us. I can trace a preoccupation with ships and the sea back to my first cross
channel trip when I was 9 years old.