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My dad’s collection of steam paintings can be split into 5 distinct groups – The Tanfield Collection, The Barry Collection, Working Locomotives, Locomotives in Profile and Miscellaneous Studies. Choose a collection you would like to view by selecting from the links below.

Artwork Collections

The Tanfield Collection

My dad first started drawing and painting his steam artwork at Tanfield Railway, the world's oldest railway, located only a mile from our family home. The work from Tanfield depicts the day to day life of the railway in the sheds and sidings, rather than focusing on particular locomotives.

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The Barry Collection

Woodham Brothers scrapyard in Barry, the legendary "graveyard of steam", gave birth to the preservation movement in the UK. My dad visited Barry on many occasions, gathering reference material and sketches for The Barry Collection of over 100 paintings and drawings.

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Working Locomotives

Although not a major part of his collection, my dad did occasionally produce paintings of locomotives in their day-to-day working environment. He often used photographs he had taken during trainspotting trips in the 1950's and 60's, re-imagining the black and white images into full colour paintings.

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Locomotives in Profile

The Locomotives in Profile collection depicts engines from a side profile view, many of which my dad had already painted prior to restoration at Barry. Painted on extremely large canvases typically in excess of 6 feet wide, the detail and technical precision of these paintings is unrivalled.

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Miscellaneous Studies

This collection features a number of locomotive motion studies. My dad was not only fascinated by the beauty of steam locomotives but also their engineering and mechanics, with a library of steam books that includes many volumes of technical drawings.

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