Eric Bottomley Overview:
Britannia Models is pleased to carry railway art by Eric Bottomley. This member of the Guild of Railway Artists has produced some very fine scenes of the steam and tram era in Britain and Ireland.
We carry postcards (Cdn $1.00) and greeting cards (Cdn $2.50, blank inside) of his work in the store and special order the fine art prints. The size is shown under each picture in the catalogue.
Please take a look at the marvelous scenes available on our catalogue pages. We think you will be impressed! We can also mail you a brochure by snail mail at your request.
Eric Bottomley was born in Oldham, Lancashire in 1948. He studied art and craft at Oldham School of Art leaving in 1964 to work in Manchester as a commercial artist. In 1974 he moved to Dorset continuing as a freelance artist/illustrator which enabled him to devote more time to oil painting. Two years later he took up fine art full time from his studio in Wimborne Minster. He joined the Guild of Railway Artists in 1979, later to become a full member.
Eric's subjects are mostly of a nostalgic nature, depicting the age of steam railway, vintage transport and more recently the Victorian and Edwardian era.
In the field of genre painting, Eric's use of models wearing period costume and his painstaking research into town and country life from photographs and books help to produce an accurate study of life in days gone by. A great deal of Eric's work is privately commissioned but in order to be more self indulgent in his subject matter he has over the years stage one man exhibitions.
Eric now lives and works in the village of Much Marcle, near Ledbury, Herefordshire.
