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RAIL ART 2008 AT KIDDERMINSTER RAILWAY MUSEUM
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Rail Art Spring 2009 at The Buckinghamshire Railway Centre
23rd May - 21st June
Our next RAIL ART exhibition will be at The Buckinghamshire Railway Centre which, as you probably already know, is located at Quainton Road Railway Station - just off the A41 between Aylesbury and Bicester or the A413 at Whitchurch.
If you're using public transport there are no regular passenger trains to Quainton Road, but the number 16 Arriva bus to Bicester from Aylesbury Bus Station stops there. The Bus Station is clearly signposted and just a couple of minutes walk from Aylesbury Railway Station.
For details Download our press-release (0.2Mb Word Doc)
Poster painting - detail taken from:
The Pines Express by John Austin FGRA
Rail Art Summer/Autumn 2009 at The NRM, Shildon
29th August - 4th October
Selection for this will be in Leamington Spa on the 22nd August.
Rail Art at Kidderminster
Our big art exhibition for 2008 ended on September 28th.
As of 30th August 16 paintings had already been sold.
I wonder who will receive the 2008 PICTURE OF THE YEAR award - He can't do it again surely? Read on...
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Totnes Castle by John Austin FGRA |
PICTURE OF THE YEAR 2008 goes to...
Well who would have guessed? John Austin!
Picture of the Year Award 2008 was voted for by visitors to Rail Art 2008 at the Kidderminster Railway Museum at the Severn Valley Railway's Kidderminster station. Winning painting was 'Totnes Castle' by John Austin FGRA. Runner up was 'The Cunarders' by Malcolm Root and third was 'Manchester Bound' by (him again) John Austin. Surprise, surprise, 4th place also went to (I can hardly bring myself to write this) John Austin with 'Coryton Cove, July 1951'.
The win means John retains the Laurence Hammonds Award Rose Bowl, his 15th win and his 11th in succession.
Over 1400 votes were cast as follows:
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Title |
Artist |
Votes |
| 1st |
Totnes Castle |
John Austin |
250 |
| 2nd |
The Cunarder |
Malcolm Root |
164 |
| 3rd |
Manchester Bound |
John Austin |
152 |
| 4th |
Coryton Cove, July 1951 |
John Austin |
74 |
| 5th= |
The Station Cat |
John Harrison |
72 |
| 5th= |
Storming Through Stechford |
Philip D Hawkins |
72 |
| 7th |
Signalling Winter |
Malcolm Root |
71 |
| 8th |
Leaving Glasgow |
Stephen Warnes |
36 |
| 9th |
Home - City of Carlisle |
Stephen Warnes |
30 |
| 10th |
Weekday Cross, Nottingham |
Rob Rowland |
27 |
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Ribblehead in Winter by John Harrison GRA |
THE GEORGE BUSBY MEMORIAL AWARD
This award is judged by the Selection Panel for the annual Rail Art exhibition and is for what the Panel consider to be the best painting selected for exhibition in a water based media.
At the Selection Panel Meeting for Rail Art 2008 the panel chose a water colour painting 'Ribblehead in Winter' by John Harrison, GRA. as the winning painting. John was the winner of this award last year and retains the award. Congratulations John! |
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Congratulations to new artists who were accepted for membership of the Guild. They are:
John Cobold, Ian Docwra and Colin Nairns... Well done and welcome.
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Well done Roger Watt on gaining full membership of the Guild - being voted in by our adjudication panel on July 18th 2008.
Roger lives and works in British Columbia, Canada. His pencil drawings, not only of railway subjects, are highly acclaimed throughout the world.
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Does anyone know of the artist who signs their work 'KPC'? Carole Cuneo has a painting by KPC of a Western Diesel, an HST and a GWR King dated 1994. If you know who KPC is contact Carole:
sales@terencecuneo.co.uk
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Well - not quite.
Publishers David & Charles have reprinted 'To The Seaside',
originally released in 1990 and long since sold out.  The
reprint is in softback and has been given a new title: 'Great Railway
Paintings Inspired by the Seaside'.
Price £12.99 - it is available from all good book shops. |
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