Illustration: Bright, beautiful freight trains from british illustrator Toby Neilan

Date
17 January 2014

We’ve praised him previously for his terrific use of colour and his effortless renderings of fabrics as simple, understated forms, but we really didn’t expect to be lauding Toby Neilan’s ability to paint trains. The majority of Toby’s portfolio is full of fashion and architecturally-minded illustration that plays fast and loose with rich colour palettes; and then there’s this great collection of freight trains somewhere in the middle that show off an entirely different set of interests. Somehow, with a liberal smattering of dots, lines and blocks of colour, Toby has managed to create images that border on the lifelike and leap off of the screen with a freight-weight force.

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Toby Neilan: Freight Trains

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Toby Neilan: Freight Trains

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Toby Neilan: Freight Trains

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Toby Neilan: Freight Trains

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Toby Neilan: Freight Trains

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James Cartwright

James started out as an intern in 2011 and came back in summer of 2012 to work online and latterly as Print Editor, before leaving in May 2015.

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