Oil painting showing the Sea Shepherd ship Allankay in rough Antarctic seas with humpback whales breaching in the foreground and a distant fishing vessel in the background.

Sea Shepherd

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Medium Oil on panel
Dimensions 21″ × 24″ (53 × 61 cm)
Framing Unframed
Year 2025

The Sea Shepherd conservation vessel Allankay is shown patrolling Antarctic waters, positioned between a pod of humpback whales and a distant fishing vessel. The whales dominate the foreground — one breaching, another's tail rising from the swell — while Allankay holds station in the middle distance against a dramatic, ice-capped shoreline.

Sea Shepherd's Antarctic campaigns involve direct intervention to protect marine wildlife, placing their ships between target species and vessels suspected of illegal or unregulated fishing. Allankay operates in some of the most remote and hostile waters on earth, and the painting attempts to convey both the scale of the Southern Ocean swell and the proximity of these encounters — conservation work carried out at close quarters in dangerous conditions.

The composition is deliberately divided into three layers: the whales in the immediate foreground, Allankay in the middle ground, and the fishing boat in the background beyond. Painted on panel to allow fine detail across the scene. Signed GS in the lower right, and dated in the lower left.

£1,550
Including packaging and fully insured worldwide shipping.

No payment is taken at this stage.

Detail Views
Close up of a humpback whale's tail flukes plunging into turbulent, icy Antarctic water.
Humpback whale tail in tall seas
Close up showing the Sea Shepherd vessel Allankay holding station as a humpback whale surfaces with a prominent blow alongside.
Allankay and surfacing whale
Close up of the right foreground showing the detailed brushwork of dark blue Antarctic swell and churning white water.
Antarctic sea detail
A person's hand resting near the edge of the unframed panel painting of Sea Shepherd, showing scale and texture on a dark wooden table.

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