Dennis Adams

Adams had arrived in Falmouth in 1935 with his pencil and oil sketches on sail canvas and spent several years studying art at the Royal Arts School, with its emphasis on life drawing and figurative work, skills which combined with his experience under sail were to invest his subsequent work with a muscular force. Adams returned to Australia early in 1939 on Erikson’s Lawhill, with war clouds gathering. source: https://www.sea.museum/2016/04/27/windjammer-sailors/dennis-adams