Stone carvings around the temple of Angkor Wat in Cambodia are amazing. I found them after seeing s snippet of a holiday programme. I isolated this very specific scene from hundreds, probably thousands, on the temple walls and tried to represent it faithfully, though with colour. The warrior boat was taken from a much bigger scene of war, carved out of huge blocks of stone, now worn. A source of fascination for me because, in it, you can see the slaves pulling at the oars and, above them, the warriors with weapons in hand ready to fight. An oarsman steers the ship towards their target and a leader at the bow rouses them to give their all. The fish in the sea are, in my mind, an anomaly (partly why I painted them a blue colour) but I think it may be part of another scene of fishermen nearby. It certainly shows a wealth of sea life at the time! An original sculpture of a warrior ship sits alongside the painting.