'Show Force SPTA', 2017

Oil painting by Captain J H L (Hugh) Beattie, signed lower left, 2018.

Challenger 2 tanks on Salisbury Plain Training Area (SPTA) in the summer of 2017.

The artist, Hugh Beattie, says that the army runs through his work. Four generations of his family have served in the Territorial Army. He served with the Inns of Court and City Yeomanry while still at art college and painted while on deployment in Bosnia in 1996. Beattie is passionate about showing the glorious side of the armed forces; 'I want the paintings to keep the flame of what it is to be proud to be in the army alive.'

Beattie painted this scene with the assistance of the Royal Wessex Yeomanry.