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Contemporary
Online Art Gallery of original
paintings and limited edition prints by Scottish artist John Stoa
from Dundee.
This website shows original paintings and fine art prints including
Scottish
Landscape paintings,
and romantic art, and
figurative paintings with
the artist's Scottish model, flower paintings, and John's other
love, snow scenes in Scotland, in his winter
landscapes , and other festive paintings often used for
Christmas cards.
An
early summer trip to Islay and Jura in the Inner Hebrides last year,
gave John many ideas for a range of Scottish
landscape watercolour paintings. The trip coincided with the
annual whisky festival on Islay, an occasion not to be missed.
The west coast islands enjoys dry sunny weather with clean beaches
of pure white sand and views over the water to Northern Ireland
and Arran on the Scottish mainland.
A range of contemporary stretched box canvas, which do not need
framing, painted with large bold flowers and still life can be seen
at Box Canvas Art and landscape
paintings of Rait village in Perthshire at triptych
paintings .
Summer
Art Workshop
An Acrylic for Beginners art workshop will run for two days on Friday
and Saturday, 3rd and 4th July 2009.
See the art classes and workshops
page for more information.
Studio
Clearance Art Exhibition
An art exhibition of over one hundred paintings will be held in
John's studio in Dundee from Saturday 11th July to Sunday 19th July
2009.
There will be massive discounts on all paintings.
More details on the Art Exhibition
page.
Hand Made Paper. John has created several figure studies
on hand made paper some of which can be seen on this link to HAND
MADE PAPER.
Contemporary landscape paintings of
angus can be seen on exhibition at the art gallery in Kirriemuir
called The Tower Gallery.
Original paintings of contemporary art can make an excellent
investment as well as a retirement
gift.
Art
Collection and Archive
Contemporary paintings previously shown on the main web
pages, but now replaced with John's latest works can still be seen
on the following links, and many are still available for sale.
Landscape Paintings , and Winter
Pictures ,
Romantic
Art Paintings , and Figurative Art
Private
Commissions
Clients who wish to have
a special painting done to their own requirements may contact John
to arrange a private commission.
Limited
Edition Prints ........(Free
Delivery in UK)
John's fine art prints ( over
30 ) extend the range with Scottish
towns including Edinburgh, featuring Edinburgh Castle, and Perth.
As Dundee is John's home town he has naturally created several prints
of Dundee City in all seasons and as a sunset and beach landscape
picture of Broughty Ferry.
For more information on the history, business, culture and leisure
activities in his home town visitors can find everything on this
link to Dundee
City.
Other
scenes include the Scottish
Highlands, with great atmospheric feeling in Glencoe, and the
Isle of Skye, and sailing boats on romantic Loch Lomond for those
in a loving mood. More Romantic
images include landscape watercolour paintings of sunset at
Broughty Ferry, figure studies, erotic art, nude models, and red
roses.
AUTUMN
ART
CLASSES
Evening and afternoon art classes
in autumn will run for 12 weeks from 21st September 2009. There
are two evening classes on Monday and Tuesday from 7pm to 9pm and
an afternoon class on Tuesday from 2pm to 4pm.
More information on this link to the art
classes page.
Students can put a painting on their own exhibition page each year..........>
Some of the student's previous paintings can be seen at
art class exhibition 2003 , and art
class exhibition 2004 , and
art class exhibition 2005 , and
art class exhibition 2006
, and
art class exhibition 2007,
and art class exhibition 2008
, and
art class exhibition 2009
PRIVATE
ART LESSONS
One
to one tuition can be arranged to suit those who desire a more intensive
approach to improving their artistic abilities.
A range of lessons can be structured to individual needs, but normally
John will run sessions of two hours with a fee of £30 per
hour.
Tuition online by email and the internet is ideal for those too
far away to travel to Dundee.
A private tuition gift voucher can make an excellent retirement
or birthday gift or for that special occasion.
John's
Art Career
He
started working life in 1959 as a gardener in Dundee and his horticultural
career advanced at a fast pace with travel all over Britain, and
a head full of landscaping ideas, however, he always painted in
his spare time as a form of art therapy, then as he found success
with his love of painting, he became a full time artist in 1992.
The home garden is now the hobby, although his specialism
is still in demand for gardening advice and landscape
design ideas.
To see more details on John's CV click this link to his bibliography
This will also show his one man shows, private commissions, and
other gallery exhibitions.
Allotment
Gardening art
John gets the 2008 TOP AWARD
John rented a plot in 2006 on Dundee City Council's City Road Allotment
Garden site to grow crops, and find a new source of ideas to paint
with old sheds, greenhouses, fences and walls and dilapidated garden
structures of great character perfect to capture on canvas.
Some of these paintings can be seen on this link to allotment
gardening.
John's love of gardening has paid dividends with his experimenting
with warm climate crops in Scotland possible with global warming.
Grapes, peaches and Figs are now all growing outdoors on trial.
John's allotment won the award for the best allotment in Dundee
in the Councils Britain in Bloom competition in 2008.
John is also experimenting with growing a new fruit crop of Saskatoons
on his allotment garden and keeping a diary of events as the young
bushes mature.
The Scottish Artist and his Garden (New
Blog)
John is creating a diary of events to record the life of an
artist who also manages to maintain a beautiful garden and allotment.
Please feel free to look over his thoughts and comment as you wish
on his new blog at the Scottish
artist and his garden.
Scottish
garden pictures
The home and garden of artist John Stoa from Dundee can be seen
from these thumbnail links.
John's love of horticulture is evident in the development and design
of his large garden full of fruit and flowers in bloom all year
round, many of which get captured on canvas.
This garden is well planted, mature and has a wealth of subject
matter ready for painting.
Please feel free to have a wander around the garden by clicking
the link to Scottish garden pictures,
or these other links Outdoor
Plants and then
Fruit Growing, and for the
patio gardener, Hanging baskets
and tubs
,and Flowering Bulbs
, and then a border for the Rose
Bushes
and from November to March, in the dark months the Winter
Garden is outstanding with the bright colours of the dogwoods,
kerria, and Leycesteria underplanted with drifts of snowdrops.
Autumn crops of raspberries and strawberries are now
a regular feature on John's allotment site. See his perpetual
strawberry Flamenco.
John has included a link to a page for
Garden Trees suited to the small garden, now that the
young trees have put on a bit of growth.
Have a look on the progress of John's superfood
Saskatoons , the new berry
to hit the fruit garden. He is hoping they will produce a crop in
Scottish soils and with our climatic conditions, which vary tremendously
from the prairies of Canada where they grow in abundance. The bushes
produced their first small crop of fruit in July 2007, after a record
breaking spell of wet and sunless weather, so early superfood tastings
left a lot to be desired. However although 2008 was even worse it
did get excellent weather up to the end of May so the resultant
second crop of 9 lbs was quite good. John
is hoping that 2009 will prove to be an excellent year for his new
Saskatoon superfood berries.
Interior Design and Corporate Art
Large contemporary paintings and stretched box canvas can be very
appropriate for Corporate and interior
design use.
Company promotions often use art for calendars, Christmas cards,
prints, and retirement gifts and to record special events,
eg. "Tall Ships Race", "Dundee's Octocentenary Celebrations"
and "A Moment in Time" painted for the Millenium.
Contact
:
John
is happy to show visitors his Scottish painting collection available
in his studio. Please phone to arrange an appointment.
The studio can be found on this
map of Dundee.
To make a purchase, see the buy
art online page.
Most major credit cards accepted.
To discuss private commission,
art classes or art holiday workshops, private one
to one tuition, or online art tuition please contact John at
Original Art
17a Menzieshill Road, Dundee, DD2 1PS, Scotland UK
Telephone : 44 (0) 1382 665879
Email : johnstoa@blueyonder.co.uk
Website :
www.johnstoa.com
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