Working Hard
'Hilda' an 0-4-0 Saddle Tank engine built in 1938 working hard towards the end of her life at the ex Cafferata & Co (Later British Gypsum) works in Newark. Here she is hauling a couple of battered and work worn old wagons around the works. The painting for me is much more about the real life of a lot of these workhorses, rather than the shiny mainline engines normally depicted. Watercolour on 200lb Hahnemuhle paper. Almost A3 in size. Painted using 'White Nights' Russian watercolours.
About the Artist
Malcolm Davies GRA
I studied art at school in the early 1970's and my early paintings were all aircraft based. As my personal interests changed so did my artwork, and I moved into motor cycles and cars. My first car based commission in 1978 was for a Jensen CV8. In the years since then my artwork has gone…
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