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.
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.
I’ve been reviewing my work for the next exhibition. These are the woods in autumn, winter and early spring.
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.
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
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 