Create your own travel-art poster
Travel posters helped to promote holiday destinations which could be reached by train. They were regularly displayed at railway stations to tempt travellers.
We talked to contemporary travel-art poster artist Richard O’Neill about the artform today. He’s shared his top tips to help you create your own, inspired by the poster of Saltburn-by-the-Sea by H G Gawthorn.
Henry George Gawthorn produced a range of images in the 1920s and 30s for colour lithograph posters for LNER (London and North Eastern Railway). He often included a self-portrait, wearing a pince-nez and Panama hat.

If you loved the poster of Saltburn-by-the-Sea designed by H G Gawthorn and want to know more, why not explore it in more depth?
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The object is from The North Yorkshire Moors Railway. Why not pay them a visit?
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