The Train Spotter (Press/Media)
The Inspiration:
Train Spotters view the Locomotives and trains at the beautifully designed New Street Station in Birmingham in 1957, before it was sadly demolished in the mid 1960s.
A 4P Fowler tank locomotive 2-6-2T (no 42395) is waiting to depart from New Street.
See PRESS article in the Leamington Spa/Warwick Courier newspaper, Friday February 3 2012. ‘Artist goes train spotting’
Click on link below to read Mike Musson’s feature, regarding my artwork on his Warwickshire Railways website
http://www.warwickshirerailways.com/misc/kparrish.htm
The original oil painting is for sale at £750
Giclee prints size 16 in x 12in priced at £35 each are for sale.
10% from sale of proceeds to be donated to Steamtube website.
approved pencil sketch
alternative sketch (Snow Hill Station, Birmingham UK)
second alternative sketch at New Street Station
Romance of Steam
Kevin Alun Parrish © 2011