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...