I developed and refined my current style drawing trains. I started at the age of 13, but I did not achieve the level of detail shown here until I was 17. I started by enlarging line/blue print drawings from a book. It was the structure and design of the trains that attracted me. Then I progressed to recreating old photographs from rail magazines, books and my father's photographs. Railways are in my blood, my parents met at the Carriage and Wagon works. My mum's family all worked on railway rolling stock construction. My grandmother worked at the Carriage and Wagon works during the war, riveting the wings of Hurricane fighter planes, this was where she met my granddad. My father travelled all over Britain throughout the 50's and 60's collecting numbers and photographing engines. These pictures are the basis of my work today. I remember the tonal differences really frustrated me to begin with, it was very important to get this right, and I put in alot of effort to perfect this. I naturally used black and white in my pictures because the photo's were black and white, but I also gravitated towards the power of the light and dark. I do use pure black, supposedly a big no no, but as in life, pictures have many shades. |
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43098
2-6-0 standard locomotive stood at Leeds City Pencil - 59 x 36 cm Original Sold - Prints for Sale |
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66709 Commissioned by GBRf freight haulier in 2004 as a thank you present for Medite's trade Colour pencil - 64 x 45 cm |
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70048 - The
Territorial Army 1908-1958
BR standard class 7 (Britannia class), named in honour of the British Territorial Army From a photo by my father's friend Ivor - Five Arches, Derby Station c1962 Pencil - 49 x 32 cm Original Sold - Prints for Sale |
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3648
From my father's photograph in June 1961 at Llanelli, South Wales Pencil - 50 x 32.5 cm Original for Sale £1900 - Prints for Sale |
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4114
From my father's photograph 27th February, 1960 at Birmingham (Snow Hill), now part of The tramway system through Birmingham Pencil - 42 x 29.7 cm Original for Sale £1900 - Prints for Sale |
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4172
The same day in 1960 at Snow Hill I liked all the old advertising in the background on this atmospheric picture Pencil (normally used - 2H, H, HB, B, and 2B) - 42 x 29.7 cm Original Sold - Prints for Sale |
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6008
- King James II
Again the same day in 1960 at Snow Hill Pencil - 42 x 29.7 cm Original for Sale £1600 - Prints for Sale |
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42108
A February morning in 1966, the days of steam around Derby I liked the old setting of the gas towers, lights and water pumps, now all gone Watercolour - 38 x 24 cm Original Sold - Prints for Sale |
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A February morning again in 1966, the two loco's move onto Derby shed Watercolour - 38 x 24 cm Original Sold - Prints for Sale |
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37026
A summer holiday led me and a friend to Llandudno Junction in summer 1994 Colour pencil and rotary ink - 50.5 x 36 cm Original for Sale £1800 - Prints for Sale |
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KS4000 The forgotten prototype of the late 60's rated the highest powered diesel of its time when built by Brush of Loughborough Kestrel was sold to Russia in the early 70's where it ended its life being analysed, tested and eventually scrapped by the late 80's Pencil - 42 x 59 cm Original for Sale £2200 - Prints for Sale |
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Holyhead
Using a photograph from a holiday in North Wales Created in Freehand 7.0 to resemble an old railway poster |
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Lancaster
A study of a Lancaster Bomber flying over a British landscape Pencil - 42 x 29.7 cm Original for Sale £650 - Prints for Sale |
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