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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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42602
A study of steam, smoke and stone as a Stanier tank engine
approaches Liverpool's Lime Street Station
Rotary ink - 25 x 35 cm
Original
for Sale £650 - 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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90396
and 48315
A February morning again in 1966, the two loco's move onto Derby
shed
Watercolour - 38 x 24 cm
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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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