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
by John Dalton | Jan 3, 2016 | 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 3, 2016 | Art, Drawing, works on paper
30 x 20 cms (12″x 8″) Charcoal on paper
by John Dalton | Jan 2, 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.
by John Dalton | Dec 15, 2015 | Art, Drawing
