Eldon Trimingham III
classical & marine artist
Welcome to the studio.
Hours spent among brushes, paints, and ships.
Eldon's studio is located at the centre of a Bermudian cove. Around nine or ten o'clock, he begins his shift each night. Positioned at the easel, which he crafted by hand, Eldon spends three concentrated hours each night, paintbrush to canvas.
You can see your work in progress at the studio with Eldon, pic-tured here.
1. Note the copy of Playboy. No, he did not model for the popular gentleman's entertainment magazine. That edition featured one of Eldon's paintings, The Adela. The painting featured to the right captures the winning ship in a yacht race from New York to England in the 1990s. The winner, the Adela, was a 173' schooner. Bill Wagner writes about the race in the Capital Gazette.
2. The sofa chair keeps Eldon comfortable for long hours of focus at his easel. Sometimes it is so comfortable that even the most high profile artist sucuumbs and falls asleep where he sits. As Eldon typically reserves the late night to work on his paintings, this is no surprise. Usually, it does the trick for smaller artworks, but it gets cold as Eldon stands up to complete his larger projects.
3. A handmade easel was necessary to meet different canvas sizes while conserving studio space. The artist, himself, made it by hand to ensure it would suit his needs. Plus, online shopping wasn't as transparent when this easel was made, so it was simpler to craft it.
4. A wide array of coloured oil paints line the workbench to Eldon's left. He uses oil paints for his paintings and somehow manages to keep his work station clean of of them. There seem to be fifty brushes ready to use them all.
5. Eldon sits on top of his father's shoulders on the cover of an edition of Homes and Cottages. His mother walks alongside them to the left. The Triminghams are longtime residents of Bermuda, known for their three-story department store (which is quite large for the small island of Bermuda).