Sketchbook Sailor

Claudia Myatt

Golden Duck

£14.99

Artist and illustrator Claudia Myatt is well-known for her jaunty drawings of boats, but it turns out she’s equally at home depicting the blobbier aquatic mammals of the southern oceans, and much else besides. In late 2019 she signed on for a two-month passage on a sailing ketch, Tecla, from the Galapagos Islands, round Cape Horn to Easter Island and the Falklands.  True to the spirit of voyaging under sail, she left her camera behind, trusting to her eye and hand to record the trip. The result is a beautiful, unusual, funny and thoughtful travel book, mixing reproductions of her sketchbook pages with often-quirky commentary that will provide a pleasant lift to the spirits of any locked-down adventurer.

(Review by Peter Willis)