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Not sure about doing this but wanted to show a pic of the artist mentioned on Tuesday.

From the Internet
The Gallery at NUA is very pleased to be working alongside the writer Julia Blackburn to bring a unique exhibition of John Craske’s beautiful paintings and tapestries to NUA, which will then travel to the Peter Pears Gallery as part of the Visual Arts Programme of the Aldeburgh Festival in 2015.
John Craske was a Norfok fisherman, born in Sheringham 1881 who became very ill at the onset of the First World War. In 1923 he began to paint the sea, boats and coastline and later began working in embroidery, which he could do from his bed. One of his great masterpieces is a tapestry called The Evacuation of Dunkirk, which he made after listening to what was happening on the wireless. Many smaller ships including fishing and life boats formed part of a flotilla which helped carry soldiers to the larger vessels. One patch of sky within the tapestry remained unfinished, when Craske died in 1943.