Trains painting

Regular readers will know of my affection for Brighton’s train station and my various attempts to portray it. I think this affection was the starting point for some recent picture research where I was looking for atmospheric images of train stations. I can’t remember if I was also looking specifically for black and white photos … Train station watercolour paintings Read More »

Linocuts from London-based artist Gail Brodholt. Known for her distinctive colours and stricking visual style, see her latest work as well as some of her work over her career.

Train painting, I'm wanting to paint a train for my son..

Lockdales of Ipswich are probably best known as coin and militaria specialists but, having moved premises earlier this year, they have also offered some stand-out items in their fine art and antiques sales in 2012.

Join me in conversation with painter Aron Wiesenfeld on his wild, whimsical worlds. Looking at his nostalgic paintings is like waking up from a dream.

After all the restrictions of working on the perspective of last week’s train station painting, I was keen to liberate myself with something altogether more free and easy this week. A weekend or two ago I had to return north to scatter my mum‘s ashes. One of my favourite parts about returning to the ancestral … A sunlit train station and a big sky: watercolour paintings Read More »

Steam Train. Painting, 1999.

Quick painting trains our reflexes and judgment; it improves the observation of the eyes and drawing skills of the hand.