AVOYAGETOTHEINTERIOR

Introduction

Gary James & Alex James - Voyageart

Our voyage has as its point of departure a childhood
spent in Africa. This voyage takes one to an Africa
just over the horizon, to the bits you haven’t seen yet.

The story really begins with the painting, “Captain
Maltraver’s Voyage to the Interior”, hung in the Royal
Academy’s Summer Exhibition in 1980 – the TV critic’s
pick of the show.

The “magic carpet” for that painting and several since,
was the 10 man “North Sea” airship, developed by the
Admirality during the First World War for anti-submarine
patrols lasting days over that sea.