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This website has moved to www.trophyoars.com
Welcome
While the origins of the tradition are not fully understood, the beauty of a handpainted oar is known to all who have seen them and aspired to earn the right to one.
I came to paint trophy oars by chance while pursuing my other rowing interests and now I offer my art to all via this website. It is a hobby that has grown out of control as I have been asked by more and more rowers on the banks of the Yarra River to create a work for them. It is not a business for commercial gain, rather a cottage industry born of a desire to share my skill in rowing with all who might appreciate it. I have even designed many rowing related t-shirts which are sold around the world.
Please use this site for not simply organising to purchase an oar. Instead use it as a window into the history and art of the trophy oar and the other areas of rowing competition and history that lay behind its origins and future. I hope you enjoy your visit and feel free to contact me with any ideas, comments or suggestions on what is a new and unproven website.
Post correspondence via the Richmond Rowing Club, Princes Bridge, Melbourne VIC 3004, Australia
What's New (29th December
04)
Working hard now I am in my holidays from my 'real' job. Have done 3 oar
for Christmas and still have another 7 to do!
Few new pics in the gallery and a couple of pics below as well!
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| 5 blades painted for Mercantile RC to celebrate the Athens Olympic win of James Tomkins and Drew Ginn. | James and Drew
make the artist feel as short as he is! The blades are to be used for fundraising for the Mercantile Club. |