Neil Podbery (in his own words)

"I was born in Oxfordshire in 1979. I started drawing as a young child and my love affair with art continued throughout school and then College where I attained my BA honours degree. As with many other young boys in generations past, I had a keen interest in steam locomotives. This subject proved to become the basis for my first foray into the commercial art world.

I enjoy immensely the technicalities that mechanical form has. Especially in the case of steam locomotives, I feel great passion for the atmosphere that those seething, clanking, fire eating titans create and although cast of iron, steel, brass and copper I have always felt that they share a mortality with us. Every last element that I can discern visually I attempt to incorporate into my paintings. I take the greatest pleasure in using the medium of oil paint, as I feel it responds well to my style".