"Sleeping Giant"
EMD 9A Passenger locomotive from 1961. This too has been left for many years and is well weathered. Rust is making its continuing presence felt and pushing its way through the fading livery. The sheer presence of this old leviathan is still there.
This painting was chosen as the winner in the UK "The Artist" magazine's March 2021 competition as part of their 90th anniversary celebrations. Paintings entered into this competition had to be based on the word 'Silence'. The judges commented " We felt Malcolm's watercolour painting of a rusting 1961 locomotive standing silently on a piece of abandoned track in the increasingly forlorn hope of a saviour, summed up this challenge perfectly"
