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C. Grant Gulland
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Grant Gulland is a retired teacher who has had a love of art, painting and aviation most of his life. He is a retired reserve RCAF officer and licensed pilot. Grant is a volunteer at the Canadian Warplanes Heritage Museum in Hamilton, Ontario and a crew member on a vintage DC-3 that flies at airshow around southern Ontario. He is also an excellent carpenter.
Grant has decided to translate his love of airplanes to canvas and create paintings of a variety of both civilian and military aircraft. Although aviation his first love, he also enjoys painting landscape and other subjects with equal enthusiasm. Many of his paintings stem from his life experience and travels using photographs for the main ideas.
Grant's paintings are created using acrylic paint on canvas, however, frequently works in a variety of other mediums, including pencil, crayon, coloured pencil, pastel and ink.
Commissions accepted.
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Ready to Roll by C. Grant Gulland
Spitfire Pilot - Ready to Roll
An RAF Spitfire pilot sitting in the cockpit awaiting the notice to "Scramble". During the Battle of Britain pilots frequently sat in the cockpit of their fighters with the engine running so that they would be able get off the ground as quickly as possible. The uniform shoulder flash is the Royal Canadian Air Force worn by many Canadian personnel who fought with the Royal Air Force during the second world war.
15 x 20 inches, acrylic on canvas
Prints available for sale
https://doublegcreations.org/
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Super Constellation by C. Grant Gulland
20 x 30 inches, acrylic on canvas
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Golden Hawk by C. Grant Gulland
16 x 20 inches, acrylic on canvas
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CP Air DC-8 by C. Grant Gulland
20 x 34 inches, acrylic on canvas
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North Star by C. Grant Gulland
20 x 30 inches, acrylic on canvas
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CF-18 Pilot by C. Grant Gulland
16 x 20 inches, acrylic on canvas
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Safe Home by C. Grant Gulland
The Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum's DC-3 in the markings of 435 /436 Burma Squadron. They were Canadian Squadrons flying supplies from Burma to China 1944-5.
18 x 24 inches, acrylic on canvas
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Churchill Approach by C. Grant Gulland
A 400 Squadron Otter based in Churchill, Manitoba. It is pictured on approach to Churchill Airport, the flight path to land took them over the old Hudson Bay Fort. The ship wreck in the top left is a Greek Freighter that ran aground many years ago and was frequently visited by 400 crews when business was a little slow.
24 x 36 inches, acrylic on canvas
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Successful Search by C. Grant Gulland
A 400 Squadron Otter in Search and Rescue livery doing a search for a downed aircraft in the arctic.
24 x 36 inches, acrylic on canvas
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HMCS Iroquois by C. Grant Gulland
Painted as a gift for a retired teacher colleague who once served aboard her.
18 x 24 inches, acrylic on canvas
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437 Squadron Museum Display Panel by C. Grant Gulland
The Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum is in the process of developing a new display depicting the history or Transport Command and specifically 437 Transport Squadron.
(See below for additional details)
acrylic on masonite
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The display was prompted by the acquisition of C-47 aircraft RCAF id # FZ 692. She took part in the mass paratroop drop D Day as part of RAF 233 Squadron and was later transferred to the RCAF. The mural is painted on 1/4" masonite and will be attached to the left hand side of the bulkhead that stands between the cockpit and cabin of the 737 fuselage section that is on show at the museum.
The mural shows the four different transport aircraft that 437 has flown throughout its 70-plus years of operation.
There is a great deal of work still to come on the project but things are happening in small steps. Bill McBride is the lead on the project. I believe he has obtained a complete cabin interior that is yet to be installed. The exterior of the cockpit is also in the process of being refurbished however Covid 19 has slowed things down considerably.
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