25 PORTRAITS of members of the Lyme Regis Lifeboat Crew will be displayed during this year's Lifeboat Week.
Professional artist and one of the newest members of the Lyme Regis RNLI shore crew, Maria Barbashina, is this week applying the final touches to portraits of 25 members of the RNLI crew of Lyme Regis lifeboat.
Maria has just one more portrait to complete before the start of Lifeboat Week, which begins this Saturday, July 24.
The portraits will be hanging in the boathouse at the Lifeboat Station on the Cobb.
She said:”The crew were all very patient during each sitting which took around 90 minutes and I am delighted with the result.”
Maria, 38, began training as an artist in Russia when she was 12-years-old before moving on to art colleges in Karelia and St Petersburg. She specialises in portraits and still life.
Since beginning the project at the start of the year, Maria has since joined the lifeboat team herself and has ambitions to progress to a sea-going member of the volunteer crew.
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