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Inspiration from Artist Wk158 Featuring Artists : Fred Lawson and George Heiron.
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Welcome to this weeks inspiration thread, I’ve made a change to the artists featuring this week ad I realised that I had featured John Killens several months ago.
This weeks featuring arts are Fred Lawson and George Heiron , will will open with a introduction to Fred Lawson an£con Wednesday Peter will introduce us the the artwork of George Heiron .
I have particular pleasure in introducing Fred Laswson a artist who I only discovered a few weeks ago , my reason for feeling particular pleasure is that he is a fellow Yorkshireman who was born in the outskirts of Leeds.
He attended Dewsbury Technical College as did I but many years after he did , the first painting I’m posting of Kirkstall Road bridge is particularly interesting to me as I passed under that bridge going to work and visiting relatives after I left Leeds .
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Mr Lawson lived from 1888 to 1968 - his daughter, Sonia, has a page dedicated to his work. And I see from that page that J B Priestley, a favourite author of mine, admired his work: anything good enough for JBP is good enough for me. He wrote: A fine and sensitive artist with a style and manner so much of his own that often I have recognised at once tiny reproductions of pen drawings as being his work.
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GEORGE HEIRON
This is an artist that most of you won't be familiar with but for those of us of a certain age with an interest in railways he was inspirational.
George was born close to Bristol Temple Meads station in 1929 and lived in the city for his whole life. He was a railway enthusiast from an early age and following his national service he took up photography with his pictures being widely published.
He did not begin oil painting until the early 1960's when he was in his thirties but he soon hit his stride and used his contacts in publishing to give his pictures a wide audience. They were used by Ian Allen for book jackets and magazine covers in full colour when most similar items used a black and white photograph. For those of us growing up at the time they were always on the shelf in WH Smiths and a lot of pocket money got spent!
He took part in the first exhibition of the Guild of Railway Artists in 1977 and continued painting until his death in 2001. Although mainly a rail artist he did do other subjects as the selection below shows.
He had the knack of capturing the proportions of a locomotive perfectly, could paint the flow of track which believe me is damn difficult, and reproduced historic liveries accurately. Most of all though he just painted wonderful pictures.
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by Peter Smith
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Peter thank you for your introduction to this excellent railway artist, I have seen some of his work before and have a couple of books with sone of his railway paintings in them . You don’t have to be a railway enthusiast to appreciate his work, the skill is there for everyone to see, only the engines bit the excellent details in the landscape, buildings and people. I’m sure some people will just enjoy the nostalgia and trip down memory lane, or is that tracks.
