David Weston

David Weston
This article is about the British author and railway artist. For the English actor, see David Weston (actor).

David Weston – British Author and Railway Artist

Biography

David Weston was born in 1935.

David Weston's first gallery and workshop was in Leicester in the late 1960s, on or near Barkby Road (probably the house labelled '1' on Google street view at 52.39.21 N 1.05.56 W). He made a living by running a framing service, allowing him time to develop his growing reputation for his energetic paintings of steam locomotives, some of which were on display. He also painted landscapes, usually in acrylic on board. He made at least one fine painting of Ragdale Hall, which at that time was derelict just before being turned into a health spa. While he was working on a painting at the Hall, a violent thunder storm broke out and he sheltered in the main front porch. He was horrified to come across a human leg and then very relieved to find it belonged to a tramp sleeping out of the rain.

Weston made a living painting railway objects. He was introduced to the subject by John Scholes (deceased) of the Clapham Museum and who was also the Curator of the British Transport Museum. Weston was taken under the wing of William McAlpine. In the early 1970s he was commissioned to paint The Great Train Robbery Board Game Box by the Games inventor Bruce Barrymore Halpenny. Weston was also the subject of a British Television program called Beware of Trains which was broadcast in 1981.

Selected paintings from Weston's 'History of the Great British Steam Locomotive' and 'Rolls Royce Fantasia' were reproduced as interval slides used by ITV Schools in 1981, 1985 and 1986.

He lived with his wife Mary in Leicestershire until his death in May 2011.

Bibliography

  • Weston, David (2005). David Weston's England. Tiverton : Halsgrove. ISBN 1-84114-424-X. 
  • Weston, David (1997). For the love of art. Kirby Bellars. ISBN 0-9526194-9-0. 
  • Weston, David (1985). Rolls Royce Fantasia. Leicester : Merriman Enterprises. 
  • Weston, David (1981). Beware of Trains. Ian Allan. ISBN 0-7110-1060-9. [1]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Current biographical and bibliographic detail obtained from Beware of Trains published by Ian Allan (UK) in 1981


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