Below is a brief profile about myself.
As a boy I lived to the south of London, between Morden and Sutton, and would often cycle to one of the footbridges at the south end of Wimbledon Station and wait for the steam hauled main line trains to thunder underneath me, although I had no idea what they were - what a waste! I also visited the Talyllyn and Ffestiniog railways while on holiday with my parents in the early sixties. I now live in Medway, Kent, UK.
My real interest in railways dates from a visit to the Bluebell Railway in 1974. I liked what I saw and wanted to learn more. This led to me visiting Camden library, near where I worked in Holborn, and working my way through their stock of books about steam locomotives and railways in general.
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Plaque for 34059 Sir Archibald Sinclair |
At the same time I became a member of the Bluebell Railway Preservation Society and visited other steam railways around the country.
During the eighties I started producing drawings of steam locomotive. The first were basic line drawings with flat colour added. As I produced more I added more detail and used an airbrush to make them three dimensional. This has led to the highly detailed illustrations I now produce.
One of my earlier illustration of Bluebell Railway's locomotive Stepney was printed and sold to benefit the railway. I have also produced various graphics for the Bluebell Railway Preservation Society.
My involvement with the Bluebell Railway led to me being asked to produce the artwork for Battle of Britain Class, No. 34059 Sir Archibald Sinclair's enamelled plaques. The locomotive has now been restored and is in service. Although I had one of the originals as a guide this was damaged so I needed to do some research to produced the new artwork. I also look after the Bulleid Society's web site.
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| Locomotives in Detail No.1, Bulleid 4-6-2 Merchant Navy Class by R.J. Harvey |
I also produced the black and white line drawings for John Harvey's book on the Bulleid Merchant Navy Pacifics - published by Ian Allan. John obtained a lot of engineering drawings from the National Railway Museum and working from them I was able to produce accurate scale drawings. These cover most of the locomotive and tender variations of this complex class.
Recently I redesigned the web site of Southern Locomotives Limited, this was done free of charge. I also produced an illustration of their locomotive No.34053 Sir Keith Park, at present this is exclusively for Southern Locomotives Ltd use.
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Coal Tit |
Although a lot of my involvement is with Southern locos my interest covers all companies, indeed the modeling I have done is Great Western. These were produced in Scale Seven of the period just before the First World War, this indulges my love of Edwardian locomotives and means I can also use a different livery from the usual chocolate and cream for the coaching stock.
My interested also extends to wildlife, which has led me to try my hand at bird illustration.
If you are wondering about the style of lining on the left-hand side of the page, the Great Western used it on Royal Locomotives to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897.
