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For the Love Of Steam by David Weston British Railway Artw/ DJ
For the Love Of Steam by David Weston
Hard cover with dust jacket 120 pages
Copyright 1988
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction
1And All For the Fear of the Fiery Dragon
2 A Time and a Place
3 Every Picture Tells a Story
4Of Painters and Paintings
5 Engines in Industry
6 Railway Territory
7 Steam in Town and Country
8 A Midland Man Looks West
FOR THE LOVE OF STEAM
David Weston
From the thunderous roar of a powerful express locomotive thrusting its exhaust high into the clouds to the quaint rumblings of an ancient industrial curiosity wheezing its way through the tortuous curves of a rural quarry, or the mighty weight and glamour of the showman's road locomotive as it generates the power for the fairground . . . steam is David Weston's passion. Steam, mainly but not exclusively railways, has become a major part of his work as a professional painter, but more than that, they are a unique expression of one man's love affair with the great age of the steam locomotive.
There are many artists who now portray the steam years on canvas, some of them too young to have witnessed even the declining years but David Weston was one of the few who realised in the nick of time the necessity to record something of what was fast disappearing in the early nineteen sixties, before it was too late. This foresight led to his first major London exhibition with an exhibition of those paintings at the British Transport Museum in 1969, a show which catapulted him immediately into a career as a professional painter.
The pages of this book show much of David's struggles as an amateur painter, his life as an established professional, and through his text and pictures give a unique insight into the way that an artist works and indeed sees through a very personal vision the many and varied aspects of the steam age.
David's paintings clearly portray the mechanics of the era, but to capture the very essence of steam power on canvas a painting must surely possess much more than technical accuracy. A careful balance of a painterly technique combined with an eye for detail, allow for the expression of light, colour and atmosphere. These ingredients are perhaps closest to the painter's heart as many of the pictures will show.
Sunlight and cloud shadow, silver mists and saturating rain, sunrise, sunset, or the mysterious gloom of a darkened interior are all an - integral part of David Weston's personal vision as a painter.
For the Love of Steam invites the reader to simply dip into its pages from section to section to enjoy from its many colour illustrations the joys, the curiosities, the drama and the glory of a whole world of steam as seen through the eyes, the palette and the brushes of David Weston.
Jacket pictures:
Front: 'Harvester at Speed' Class A3 No 60074 Harvester near Grantham, Lincs
Back: 'Cogload Junction' A King speeds through the busy junction just north of Taunton on the line from Paddington to the West.
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