At my studio today and all is quiet! Two watercolours on board completed and more work on two oil paintings. Both the watercolours are of the North York Moors – see below. Continue reading Between heath-clad showery hills…
One more painting finished for the nephews and nieces – this one comes from the North York Moors, which are all covered in pink heather at the moment – around a little village calle Goathland. According to the nieces’ rules, this painting belongs to the middle niece, I hope she likes it. Just one more to paint and leave behind. I named my business Bessie Adelaide after one of my grandmothers, and I found this shop in Whitby named after my other grandmother, Isobel May. I’ve always felt so sorry for those donkeys you find on the beach here in … Continue reading More personal information than you need to know…
I wanted to be close to the North York Moors which I drove through a few years ago and fell in love with. I chose to stay in Whitby, a fishing town by the coast – the Moors are right outside the town. And what a good choice – a town full of old buildings, cobbled streets, pubs galore and tiny shops. And I scored with a tiny funky cottage called Saucy Sal’s right on the East Pier in a Ghaut – a ghaut is a little alley that runs to the harbour – I’m behind one of those houses … Continue reading Abbess Hilda, James Cook, Bram Stoker… in Whitby
Hard to find accommodation as apparently I am landing right in Wimbledom and Trooping of the Colour time so tourists galore. But I’ve found a great B&B close to the River Thames, and they have a study and desk where I can work away on my laptop. So I’ll spend the time working, walking around London and seeing the things I never have when I’ve stopped over there – and then to plan the stay up North where I would like to be during my stay – checking out the North York Moors, the Peak District and the Lake District. … Continue reading Acccommodation in London booked!
Our studio space is confirmed at long last! Just waiting for the lease to be completed, and the painting and partitions to be done. Meanwhile at Painter’s Project on Monday afternoons, Matthew has given us two chapters from the book ‘Trust the process’, one about Mistakes and Distortions – ‘errors are harbingers of original ideas because they introduce new directions for expression’, and the other, The Many Ways of Creating – ‘once we realize that artists are themselves expressions of every conceivable way of living, we can begin to appreciate variations of creative types’. The writing is to the point … Continue reading Trust the Process
I have an image of my latest finished painting, a 1200 x 900 oil painting on canvas, called ‘North York Moors’. I was still trying to capture that feeling of history and wonderment about everyone that may have walked over this land over hundrends of years. Continue reading North York Moors
I’ve finished two new paintings and very pleased with both of them. The smaller one, Hauptallee, is pictured here and I’ll have the other image for you soon. One is of the Hauptallee in The Prater in Vienna, and the other of the North York Moors. I’ve really enjoying painting these, trying to capture the atmosphere, the feeling of being in these two places and their memories, their oldness, their years of history. Both have snow in them too, I love the cold and the snow. I’ve used oil paint with Rapid medium, with layers and layers of transparent colour, … Continue reading New paintings and studio space
Art and art doings from Jo Dalgety 