This is an image of a painting that I did last Christmas that was quite popular, I did four versions in all for various people. This one was quite large, around 50 by 70 cm and was painted with acrylic on canvas, with around three coats of acrylic in total, from the rough sketchy paint underneath to the finished coat on top.
There's something about trains, and especially steam trains that's so evocative and feeds the imagination, plus the added bonus that you're far less likely to get travel sickness! Buses are my nemesis, I've been on two journeys to London recently, both to view work in the Tate Gallery for student courses, and both journey's made me as sick as a dog, mind you the fact that we had to get up at five o'clock in the morning didn't help my constitution! And they were three and a half hour journey's both way. Give me a train any day.
This was painted from a photo of Tonyrefail station, near where I live, though sadly the station is no longer there, a relic from the coal days in the South Wales Valleys. My brother actually lives in Station Road which led onto the station, and I live near the current road bypass which uses the old train line as the orientation for the road itself.
