The train I have chosen to paint lives at Bowes Railway Museum in the North East of England. I have always had a passion for trains, as my father was a train driver, and the smell of the steam always takes me back to my childhood days with Dad...

While recently deciding what my next piece of artwork would be I trawled through my reference photographs and decided I wanted to paint Seaton Sluice with all its memories of a lovely day out and the experience of seeing the sea turn from a very inviting blue to a very angry grey...