The Guild of Railway Artists annual Railart exhibition ends
this Sunday on the 30th of September.
Until then there are fifty-three paintings on show by
twenty-eight different artists, ranging from the uncanny realism of Chris
Holland and David French to Emma Safe’s more abstract charcoal drawings.
Though most images concentrate as usual on the post-war age
of steam, there are also examples from railways abroad, scrapyard scenes, the heritage
lines and modern traction.
A wonderful Malcolm Root special meets you at the top of the
stairs, above the museum at Kidderminster station museum. In the Bleak Mid Winter
immediately conjures up a freezing day at Epping station featuring the push and
pull to Ongar.
Other favourites of mine, in addition to the usual masterful
Hawkins and Austin offerings, include David Halliwell and his attempts to bring
to life the many onlookers that the steam railway acquired, the atmospheric
work of Peter Annable and the convincing way that Rob Rowland embeds his work
in the urban environment.
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