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 | 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 | 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... 