The Weather Forecast (Original)

Artist: John Keay
Medium: Watercolour on Board
Size: 9" x 11" (230mm x 285mm)
Date: 1980
Code: KeayWeather

This is the unique original Watercolour painting by John Keay.

Here is the weather forecast … Tune In To A Balloon.

Top left: a United States weather ship stationed in the Atlantic.

Top right: being released from this British weather ship is a balloon carrying a radio-sound transmitter, which sends signals to a tracking station on the ground.

Main picture: the daily weather forecast is an occurrence we all too easily take for granted.

Original artwork for the illustrations on p29 of Look and Learn issue no. 970 (11 October 1980).

• Artist Biography
  John R Keay; UK
  Artist who contributed to the 'This Made Headlines' and 'Dateline' series which appeared on the inside front cover of Look and Learn in the late 1970s.
  
  Keay had a highly distinctive style, achieving an unusual smoothness of texture in his illustrations, both in colour and black and white. He usually signed his pictures “Keay”. Keay was represented by John Martin & Artists and also illustrated books, including Kings of Israel by David Kent (1981).
  
  John Keay is not to be mistaken for Jack Keay (qv) who also contributed to Look and Learn.