Indian Ink, Chinese brushes, Czech paper – come together in an English wood.
Black July Woods
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Category Archives: painting
Into Swaledale
Yorkshire Dales, coming down from Buttertubs Pass – headed towards the T-junction by Thwaite in Upper Swaledale. Tour de France 2014 Stage 1, Leeds to Harrogate.
Buttertubs Pass
Yorkshire Dales between Hawes and Muker – the bicycles will be coming this way soon. Buttertubs is the highest elevation in the Tour de France Stage 1 2014, Leeds to Harrogate.
View from the Chevin
View from the Chevin IV
View from the Chevin III
I painted the view a few times.
View from the Chevin, eyes shut
View from the Chevin I
Back o’ the houses
Trees and houses face each other. The leaves are out, the trees will win – if left to their own devices.
Summerhouse in Roundhay
Another commission – and I was keen to do it. I exhibited here recently in the Roundhay Arts Trail. One of my more formal paintings, not an easy subject and difficult to execute.
Seasnake
I’ve never met a sea snake but the urge to draw this shape makes me think my ancestors did. Either way, it’s about a life-force. The paintings were a commission I’m happy to say, and finished this week.
British Summer Time
Buds and shoots and green sun
British Summer Time has begun
Clock changing woods
I’m losing sleep tonight. The clocks go forward and in the lost hour it feels like time to stop painting the trees and look for a different horizon.
Here’s a drawing with my eyes shut. It still looks like trees:
Spring sun
Saturday late afternoon
Thursday afternoon
A watercolour and an oil painting. The sun is warming up the woods. In the daytime the sun looks green, like spring.
Jo Dunn 