The Chapel Bridge (Kapellbrucke) in Lucerne (Luzern) Switzerland

Pencil, ink and watercolour painting by Dai Wynn of the famous Kapellbrucke in Lucerne, Switzerland. The octagonal 34.5m tall Wasserturm, literally "water tower" (tower standing in the water), is part of the bridge complex and pre-dates it by about 30 years.
Over the centuries, a prison and torture chamber occupied the tower. Later it housed a municipal archive as well as a local treasury. While the tower now accommodates a local artillery association and a tourist gift shop, there is no access for the public.

In c.1365 Lucerne's fortifications required the building of the bridge over the River Reuss. It linked the right bank old town to the left bank new town. This secured the town from attack from the south (i.e. from the lake).
Initially over 270 metres long, the bridge is now only 204.7 metres in length as a result of numerous shortenings and river bank replenishments.
It is the oldest surviving truss bridge in the world consisting of strutted and triangulated trusses of moderate span. Piled trestles support the bridge structure.
On 18 August 1993, fire destroyed two thirds of the bridge's interior paintings. The Chapel Bridge again opened to the public on 14 April 1994. The refurbishment cost a total of CHF 3.4 million.

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I am a reformed electrical engineer with a PhD in microwave field theory. My first job was in Paris helping to design the antenna of a french satellite. Naturally, my wife and I speak and write the French language. We still regularly visit our work colleagues in Toulouse. The keen observer will notice a preponderance of scenes of rural France in my collection.
I have always drawn and painted, and can now pursue my passion full-time. As an electrical and communication engineer, I enjoyed immense satisfaction in my jobs and travels around the world. I recall hosting a high-ranking military official to inspect the full-size mock-up of the US Space Shuttle. Today, I enjoy even more personal pleasure in producing artworks which tend to be a visual record of my travels. However, the satisfaction I derive should in no way be perceived as an alternative to fair payment for the time and skill devoted to an artwork.
Wynn is a Welsh name, and Dai is the diminutive of Dafydd (David), my given name. It's a subtle distinction between the technologist and the artist. Left and right brain tasks.
Given my career choices, I was unable to attend art school, so am generally self-taught. Please don't hold that against me.
I produce pen and ink drawings, watercolour paintings, small oils on canvas and linen panels, and larger oils on stretched canvas. Almost all of my artworks derive from reference photographs I have composed and shot on site at various exotic locations, most often in Western Europe, but also close to home in Melbourne, Australia. My artworks are in private collections in the UK, France, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Canada, the USA, New Zealand and of course Australia.
My lifestyle choices are modern jazz, cycling, the French language, and travel.
My "Mission Statement" is to enrich people’s lives by capturing and sharing the world’s beauty as seen through my own traveller's viewpoint. I strive to create an uplifting viewer experience in my realist paintings, echoing my own joy as I capture natural ephemera for posterity in the form of realist, unpretentious and affordable oil and watercolour paintings, easily purchased online and inexpensively shipped by post.
I regularly sell my artworks, either through my own e-commerce-enabled website, other international art websites, or through art exhibitions. The most genuine praise for a piece of my art is for a collector to buy it.