Some new paintings, some old themes. I’ve been in the North-West Highlands…
You can see some sketches here.
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Spurn Point, Holderness
Spurn Point on the longest day – sunset and moonrise, 180 degrees apart. We went for an evening picnic. These paintings are from the landward-side near the Spurn Bird Observatory. Whenever I go to Spurn I wonder why I stayed away so long and I never want to leave.
Spurn Point sunset, looking towards Hull
Spurn Point with moon, looking south
Living by the woods
The back of my house faces the woods – it’s like a green wall in summer. I’ve been separating out the trees to give myself a subject. Somehow doing this also makes me feel less oppressed by the wall – a gathering of 10,000 trees that are twice as old as me and twice as high as my house.
Exhibition at Horticap, April 2013
A taste of what’s on show at the exhibition of my paintings at Horticap this month. There’s a rolling program of artists exhibiting at this venue.
Hanging it
Conkers
Diatoms
Crow
October Woods
Gledhow Valley Woods
I’ve been reviewing my work for the next exhibition. These are the woods in autumn, winter and early spring.
October
October
February
March
Spring equinox
Started painting again. This was on Sunday, the last thing I saw before the sun went down. It’s cold and the trees still have no leaves, but they will soon.
Longships Lighthouse, Land’s End
I painted this lighthouse a few times in October 2012 after I heard about missing yachtswoman, Mary Unwin. I was also inspired by J.M.W.Turner’s watercolours of the same rocks.
Longships Lighthouse, Land’s End
Recent painting…
A recent watercolour sketch. This is a fragment of a much larger piece of work. Incidentally, the paper it’s painted on is about 50 years old.
Humpback Whale
Jo Dunn 