Signed and dated oil on board.

Moby Dick was a favourite book of Farrington’s youth, and at 16, on leaving grammar school, he applied unsuccessfully for a position on a whaling craft in Liverpool. Years later, his brother was drowned in a scuba diving accident at Scapa Flow, swept deep into a current where he was forced to cut the rope connecting him to his diving partner. Farrington spent 10 days on a fishing boat searching for him out at sea. The experience informed a great many of his maritime paintings, from seascapes of desperate fish stock hoovered up by legions of fishing boats to the endless trail of a Melvillian white whale, harried by greedy sailors.