Wisdom Art Prints

03/09/2026

Little piece in Tiptree’s Focus free magazine talking about WW2 aircraft side of our art and how that started! ❤️

Thank you Dan and team 🙂

01/09/2026

New from Airfix ❤️

✈️ New in: three aircraft, one legend.

The 1:48 scale Douglas Bader Triple Pack brings together the Bristol Bulldog, Hawker Hurricane and Supermarine Spitfire Mk.IIa, three aircraft that tell the story of one of Britain’s most famous fighter pilots.

And before the building even begins, there’s that box art! Created by Wisdom Art Prints the artwork brings all three aircraft together in one striking scene. Which of the three would you build first?

Shop now: https://uk.airfix.com/products/legends-douglas-bader-triple-pack-a40101

31/08/2026

Been to Heybridge Basin for lovely Bank Holiday Walk? 🩵💙

29/08/2026

SPITFIRE FUNDS OF WW2

'Presentation Spitfires' were Spitfires funded, not by the Air Ministry, but by private donors and fundraising campaigns. Funds for a number of these Presentation Spitfires were raised throughout the county of Essex. Wisdom Art Prints collection of Presentation Spitfire art prints commemorates those aircraft, in tribute to the people who pulled together to pay for them in the most difficult of times.

Shown here is Supermarine Spitfire P8677 'Colchester & District', a Mark IIB Spitfire that flew with No. 118 Squadron RAF, with the markings NK-X. P8677. Thousands of individual Spitfire funds ran throughout not just the United Kingdom, but the British Empire and the rest of the free world, raising more than £13,000,000 - enough to fund over 2,500 Spitfires at £5,000 apiece.

The Mayor of Colchester's Spitfire Fund, taking donations from throughout Colchester and the surrounding villages (and a generous donation from the people of Colchester, Connecticut in the United States) raised £7,206. Fundraising efforts included the repeated auction of a calf (£70 10s) and a man touring the town with a barrel organ (£60). Other funds in Essex paid for Spitfires R7065 (Chelmsford), R7066 (Galleywood), and P7743 (Brentwood), among others.

Spitfire P8677 was initially assigned to No. 118 Squadron at RAF Ibsley in June 1941. The following month it was reassigned to No. 124 (Baroda) Squadron at RAF Castletown, and remained there when 124 left, being taken up by new occupants No. 54 Squadron; at this point the markings were changed to KL-M. In June 1942 P8677 was assigned to an Operational Training Unit, and continued in that role until July 1944 when it was struck off.

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28/08/2026

Discovering life on Mersea Harbour pontoon

27/08/2026

New Mersea harbour prints now available from The Oyster Gallery 💙🩵💙

26/08/2026

Wall of wings!

Art prints by www.wisdomartprints.co.uk

25/08/2026

AIRFIX COLLABORATION

We have been illustrating East Anglia since 2020’s lockdown and haven’t stopped since, having now hand illustrated hundreds of artworks which you may have seen selected independent shops, garden centres, Museums and direct from their website.

In addition to the travel poster style art deco drawings of towns villages and cities, many WW2 aviation artworks are now being produced, and this ‘rabbit hole’ has opened up lots of new opportunities.

Airfix recently commissioned Rob Wisdom to artwork a new range of models boxes for Lidl with period illustrations. The style was to match and re-introduce younger modellers to illustrations of 'Type 1' and 'Type 2' style of Airfix header card art.

Other notable commissions have been for The Shuttleworth Collection, International Bomber Command Centre (Lincoln), and artworks for Colin Bell DFC (British Mosquito pilot) and Col. Joe Peterburs (US Mustang pilot).

Rob says: My earliest doodles on exercise books at school would have been WW2 aircraft, along with going home and making the Airfix kits of famous aircraft and hanging them on my bedroom ceiling. To think one day I’d be illustrating Airfix boxes, and be able to count one or two of the heroic pilots of WW2 aircraft as friends is the stuff or dreams. We will never forget.

As well as being a long term supporter of Polish Heritage Flight a project that aims to bring to life the stories of the people that came to the 'Island of last hope' to take up the fight from Britain in the Second World War, this month we am supporting the charity by donation and signing of a Fairey Swordfish art print with (comedian) Al Murray and James Holland - both published and eminent WW2 historians, at the ‘We have Ways Fest’ military festival.

You can see Rob and Tom's latest artworks by visiting www.wisdomartprints.co.uk or following their socials on Facebook and Instagram.

25/08/2026

Cycling started the idea to draw all the fantastic towns and villages in Essex, Rob cycled one of those early routes from Tiptree to Billericay and Stock on Saturday. Essex is full of inspiring scenes ❤️