Scheckter and Villeneuve, Ferrari 312 T4. Monaco 1979
oil on canvas 45x35cm (18x14") 2005
by John Cheall ba.
Jody Scheckter is seen here leading team-mate Gilles Villeneuve into Casino Square with Alan Jones' Williams trying to hang on in third. Jones crashed out and Villeneuve retired with broken transmission but it was not an easy win for Jody, the margin over Clay Regazzoni being only half a second at the finish. Scheckter went on to take the world championship but Ferrari would wait 21 years before winning it again with Michael Schumacher.
This painting is upon a double-primed canvas stretched over a deep timber frame of professional manufacture, strung on the back and ready to hang. It is signed by the artist front and back and is supplied varnished and unframed as seen below. The painting is the hand-painted original and there are no prints being made. Click here for large format image or here to see more of his motorsport paintings
The artist, John Cheall studied painting at degree level and graduated with honours from Loughborough College of Art, England in 1990 (now Loughborough University). He has since worked as a professional landscape painter whose work is exhibited and collected internationally.
John favours a realistic approach to painting, fascinated by the transformation of the chaos of the palette into the careful and disciplined balance of the finished painting. He has closely studied and transcribed the old masters being chiefly influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites, Caspar David Freidrich, John Martin, Jan Vermeer aswell as more recent photorealists such as Richard Estes. His work is mainly concerned with the wild and high places of Britain but as a life-long motorsport fan he enjoys the occasional challenge of rendering brightly coloured Formula 1 subjects.
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