by John Dalton | Feb 22, 2023 | blog
Essay on which the forward for Alessandro Tomassetti’s book Instant Gratification was based. The medium is fast. The effect long lasting. And sublime. Painters feel time differently. They feel the weight of it. The old masters lean on them with a constant...
by John Dalton | Mar 22, 2021 | Art, Painting
This is the first in a new series of paintings arising from a process of exploration. I work from source material to ignite the process, then the painting evolves and reveals itself. The method involves painting, then sanding back, then painting again then sanding...
by John Dalton | Jan 30, 2020 | Art, Images, Yoga Art
This image is inspired by my yoga practice, the beauty of the poses, and the energy flow within and surrounding the movement.
by John Dalton | Jun 27, 2019 | Art, Yoga Art
This image is inspired by my yoga practice, the beauty of the poses, and the energy flow within and surrounding the movement. Click here to purchase prints and editions of this artwork . ....
by John Dalton | Jun 20, 2019 | blog, Consciousness
Who wants to be a Taoist sage? I do . . . don’t. Ali Cavanaugh’s brilliant watercolor of Taylor Swift. Click through for my podcast with Ali. While Taylor Swift was being born in 1989 I was discovering the Taoist approach to life. She has since made an...
by John Dalton | Mar 28, 2019 | blog
Being a Millennial has nothing to do with age. It is a state of mind. Read on, you may discover you’ve been a Millennial your whole life. I’m 54. I have a grey beard and long grey hair. Old friends like to call me Gandalf for a laugh. Depending on your own age I’m...
by John Dalton | Feb 19, 2019 | blog
While the art world went coocoobeans over DaVinci’s $450m painting sale, current renaissance painters are selling for under $20k a painting. In case you’ve been living under a rock, Salvator Mundi, what Christie’s billed as, “the last DaVinci,” recently sold for...
by John Dalton | Jan 6, 2019 | Art, Drawing, works on paper
This is a pencil study for a future painting. 40.5 x 28 cms (16″x 11″) Pencil on paper
by John Dalton | Jan 6, 2019 | blog
I never had a dog before. Animals were fine but I never really, “got,” them, at least not in the way other people seemed to. I’d met some Scottish terriers in South Africa and thought they were great but owning one, no, not really me. My wife...
by John Dalton | Dec 4, 2018 | blog
“I didn’t know people still painted like that.” There has been a quiet return to an older way of painting. To standards from the past. To a time when drawing mattered. When shock value wasn’t so highly regarded. A time when art and...
by John Dalton | Nov 21, 2018 | blog
I wandered lonely as a cloud . . . something, something, something… In praise of the half-remembered gems of poetry. I’d like to think of myself as someone who remembers complete poems. Someone who can recite them at significant moments in life, preferably looking...
by John Dalton | Nov 21, 2018 | blog
In the early hours of Friday morning RJD gallery in Sag Harbor was destroyed by fire. All the artwork on the premises was lost. Hundreds of original paintings gone. Millions of considered brush strokes no more to be seen. With everything else that is going on in the...
by John Dalton | Nov 5, 2018 | blog, Governance
If I can handle my banking online why can’t I run my country online? Wouldn’t that be better, more responsive democracy? Why do I need politicians to represent me? I can see why they were necessary in the past but why do I need them now? If I can access my online bank...
by John Dalton | Oct 7, 2018 | blog
I’m sitting with my eyes closed in a school hall in Dublin. Forty people I met only yesterday surround me. John Denver strums over the sound system and we’re encouraged to sing along. This is the 80’s. This is personal development. “Sweet, sweet surrender. Live, live...
by John Dalton | Sep 16, 2018 | blog
I’m 5 years old and uncle Tommy is coming over to show his cine films. This is 1968 and it’s a big deal. If you’ve seen Mad Men you’ll get the picture. Cine films were an event because they were in colour. Our tv was black and white. Cine films...
by John Dalton | Apr 27, 2018 | Art, blog, Consciousness, Governance
Tax Time Blood Bath You are standing in a darkened room with a large group of people who, like you, have come to see Tax Time Blood Bath. In front of you are five translucent plinths each glowing with a white light. On each plinth is a transparent table and...
by John Dalton | Apr 9, 2018 | Art, Yoga Art
This image is inspired by my yoga practice, the beauty of the poses, and the energy flow within and surrounding the movement. For prints, t-shirts, tote bags and a range of other products with this image click here. Save
by John Dalton | Feb 2, 2018 | Art, Painting
This painting asks further questions about beauty, sensuality, and mystery. Where does the beauty in this painting lie? Is it in the beautiful form of the woman, the sensuality of the moment or the intangible personal experience portrayed? Is this a morning stretch, a...
by John Dalton | Jan 30, 2018 | Art, Painting, What the eye can't see but the heart senses
Part of the series of paintings I’m currently working on called, “What the eye can’t see but the heart senses,” inspired by County Kerry, in Ireland and its people. 40x40cm acrylic on canvas. Below is a short video showing the making of this...
by John Dalton | Jan 29, 2018 | Art, Painting
Gaze is a series of paintings inspired by the experience of being held in the gaze of a strong woman. Well known actors were used as reference to highlight the contrast between the celebrity portrayals of these women and the reality of their being. The intent of these...
by John Dalton | Jan 28, 2018 | Art, Painting, What the eye can't see but the heart senses
Part of the series, “What the eye can’t see but the heart senses,” inspired by County Kerry, in Ireland and its people. 40x40cm acrylic on canvas. Below is a short video showing the making of this picture. [KGVID width=”480″...
by John Dalton | Jan 27, 2018 | Art, Painting
by John Dalton | Jan 26, 2018 | Art, Painting, What the eye can't see but the heart senses
Part of the series of paintings I’m currently working on called, “What the eye can’t see but the heart senses,” inspired by County Kerry, in Ireland and its people. 40x40cm acrylic on canvas. Below is a short video showing the making of this...
by John Dalton | Jan 19, 2018 | Art, Painting
This painting is part of a series of six called Gaze. The series includes, Uma Thurman, Salma Hayek, Nicole Kidman, Monica Bellucci, Isabella Rossellini and Cher. I painted this series in 2005 in Brisbane.
by John Dalton | Jan 13, 2018 | Art, Painting, What the eye can't see but the heart senses
Part of the series, “What the eye can’t see but the heart senses,” inspired by County Kerry, in Ireland and its people. 40x40cm acrylic on canvas. Below is a short video showing the making of this picture. [KGVID width=”480″...
by John Dalton | Jan 12, 2018 | Art, Painting
If I look a bit happy beside a painting with the heavy title of, “The allure of shame,” it’s because this painting was a marathon to paint. I took me 13 years!! It began as a simple picture of a woman on a beach which I painted in Brisbane in 2003. I...
by John Dalton | Jan 11, 2018 | Art, Painting, What the eye can't see but the heart senses
Part of the series of paintings I’m currently working on called, “What the eye can’t see but the heart senses,” inspired by County Kerry, in Ireland and its people. 40x40cm acrylic on canvas. Below is a short video showing the making of this... by John Dalton | Dec 16, 2017 | Art, Painting
I started this painting in 2014 in a frenzy of color that turned to mud in the shape of a colon. It sat in my studio for 3 years waiting for me to know what to do next. I painted the second layer just as explosivley as the first. Acrylic on canvas. 27″ x...
by John Dalton | Jun 23, 2017 | Podcast
Leave A Podcast Review n iTunes Here is a little video I made showing you how to leave a review on iTunes. Subscribe on...
by John Dalton | Apr 16, 2017 | blog
Art Viewing in the Future Art Viewing in the Future If you’re an artist, do you want more people to see your work? Do you want people to see your work even if your original paintings are in a private collection or a storage vault? Do you want people to...
by John Dalton | Mar 27, 2017 | Art, Painting
I’m expanding my art practice to include unplanned paintings. I don’t know what these are going to look like when I begin. I just begin. This is the most successful one to date. Once it was finished it didn’t feel like I had done it. I look at it the...
by John Dalton | Jan 27, 2017 | Podcast
If you met me in real life would you like to have a cup of tea with me?Well now you can – the tea part at least. Every month you can send me the price of a cup of tea. The podcast pretty much runs on cups of tea bought by people like you and I really appreciate...
by John Dalton | Oct 23, 2016 | Art, Painting
This painting started off as a little colour study I did one afternoon of my wife, Mege. I did it as a surprise for her birthday. I should mention that I painted it by sight, meaning I didn’t measure anything from the original reference photographs I used....
by John Dalton | Jan 8, 2016 | Art, Painting, What the eye can't see but the heart senses
My wife, Mege, and I had moved from Dublin city to a rural part of Kerry, a county on the southern tip of Ireland. As we settled into to our life in the country I saw men and women going about their daily agricultural business, herding cattle, driving...
by John Dalton | Jan 7, 2016 | Art, Painting
This painting is part of a series of six called Gaze. The series includes, Uma Thurman, Salma Hayek, Nicole Kidman, Monica Bellucci, Isabella Rossellini and Cher. I painted this series in 2005 in Brisbane. As you can see the painting has remained the same in the last...
by John Dalton | Jan 6, 2016 | Art, Drawing
