The Guild of Railway Artists' annual Railart exhibition is open daily from 10.00 until 4.00 until the 29th September. The location is the upstairs room above the railway museum at the Severn Valley Railway's Kidderminster station. The former grain store provides a spacious viewing space where each painting is individually lit from above by the bespoke system provided for the event. This year there are 42 paintings by 21 guild members on display, rather less than in some previous years, though the standard remains high and the subjects varied. Though photorealist paintings of the age of steam continue to predominate, led by the work of Guild fellows, John Austin, Malcolm Root and Philip D Hawkins, the more impressionist charcoal images from Emma Safe provide an interesting diversion.
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