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Environments which inform Joe’s work are chiefly: the Solway Firth and its surrounding area and the more remote locations of the Lakeland Fells.

The commission that kept me busy up until November

The commission that kept me busy up until November. Ravenscraig steel works at night. A departure from my usual subjects which I really enjoyed painting even though it was to a very concise brief. “The Craig” was closed in 1992 then taken down in 1996, so I had to work from photographs taken when it was active.
I was inspired by one image in particular which let me see how I could make this more impressionist than literal. Part of the brief was to have gigantic heaps of coal called ‘Bings’ in front of the works. Painting images of coal in a nocturne was an interesting exercise!

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A commission that has kept me going through lockdo

A commission that has kept me going through lockdown number one. The Skiddaw Massif from the south end of Derwent water. this time last year i was walking round Derwent water making the preparatory sketches. Always a bit tense to start with but once I'm settled into the painting it becomes more enjoyable. The owners are in it somewhere (not saying where), and there are about nine or ten indigenous birds in the bottom right side of the picture-two of which are so well hidden only the owners know where they are.

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Tiny sketch of brothers water, one of three or fou

Tiny sketch of brothers water, one of three or four I’ve done for a prospective commission.

Just finished this painting of a shoal. One of the

Just finished this painting of a shoal. One of the unusual things you can come across out in the Solway Estuary. The tide has ebbed away from this one leaving a sand bar but leading up to this point it would have water rushing over it from one bit of shallow water to another deeper bit. Sometimes it’s a good place to see fish crossing it to get to the deep water.

Shoal Bar on the Solway
Oil on canvas
49.5x36cm oak framed
£400

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A student piece created at Newcastle Polytechnic i

A student piece created at Newcastle Polytechnic in 1977 or 78 on the Fine Art Degree course.
It is now "Bearing fruit" as a strawberry pot in our garden.

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Autumn view near Castle Carrock, Cumbria. Oil on

Autumn view near Castle Carrock, Cumbria.
Oil on canvas. 16"X12" 40.5X30.5 cm

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Large painting of “The De’ils Stane” near ho

Large painting of “The De’ils Stane” near house on the shore on the Scots side of Solway with four smaller paintings underneath from the English side. Need finished and framed all together somehow. ...................................................................#Portcarlisle #Drumburgh #Burghmarsh #Rockliffe #Arbiglands #predella #joedias #oilpainting #fineart #solway #cumbria #artworkforsale #buyart #lakedistrict #fineartist #painting #ukscenery #explorebritain #earthfocus #visitbritain #thenorth #artist #landscape

Our “new” tractor. Great air conditioning! #Tr

Our “new” tractor. Great air conditioning! #Tractor #vintagetractor

Across the Dunes at Allonby. Oil on canvas. ......

Across the Dunes at Allonby. Oil on canvas. .......................................................................#Allonby #solwaycoast #joedias #oilpainting #fineart #solway #cumbria #artworkforsale #buyart #lakedistrict #fineartist #painting #ukscenery #explorebritain #earthfocus #visitbritain #thenorth #artist #landscape

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⛰ research trip 👨🏻‍🎨 #lakedistrict ⛰.
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⛰ doing some research ⛰. #joedias #oilpainting

⛰ doing some research ⛰. #joedias #oilpainting #fineart #solway #cumbria #artworkforsale #buyart #lakedistrict #fineartist #paint #lakedistrict #lovethelakes #ukscenery #explorebritain #earthfocus #visitbritain #thenorth #artdairly #artist #landscape

Preparatory oil painting of the quay at Port Carli

Preparatory oil painting of the quay at Port Carlisle. Intended to paint the entire vista from the marsh and cottage over to the quay. How many times over the years have we walked that route? #joedias #oilpainting #fineart #solway #cumbria #artworkforsale #buyart #lakedistrict #fineartist

The finished article, oil on board, just over a me

The finished article, oil on board, just over a metre wide and 58cm tall but it needed to be that size to fit everything in! The shore, the cottage, stoney island and of course the quay.
Memories of gangs of pals and relatives picking our way over there and back again in the summertime as children, usually in bare feet and sustaining at least one major laceration on the way. It was ok though as the melting tar that stuck to the soles of your feet on the road back to the village usually stopped the bleeding. Happy days! #joedias #oilpainting #fineart #solway #cumbria #artworkforsale #buyart #lakedistrict #fineartist

Thank you to everyone who came to our open gallery

Thank you to everyone who came to our open gallery on Sunday. Some lovely people even bought pieces of work. The big news is that together we raised £672.00 for Hospice At Home at the same time. Thanks again to everyone for their crazy lovely generosity.

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The final touches being added to the open studio d

Mr Rutherford's Dogs This view of sheep dogs desp

Mr Rutherford's Dogs

This view of sheep dogs desperately trying to get out of a barn every time they hear something in the yard is a common sight on livestock farms in Cumbria. The bottom of the barn door has been well chewed at and repaired in places over the years. I painted a smaller version of the same subject about 20 years ago which was bought by a retired postman who said that it reminded him of delivering mail to many Cumbrian farms.
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Flood at Port Dock Giclee Print, from an original

Flood at Port Dock Giclee Print, from an original oil painting by Joe.
The dock area at Port Carlisle holds many memories for me and Iv'e long been fascinated by the total change that comes over this area as the tide rapidly floods in submerging the remnants of its history and as they slowly reappear again as the tide slowly ebbs away again.
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Working in the Solway tide to create images. A whi

Working in the Solway tide to create images. A while ago accompanied by our old dog Rusty getting ready to anchor down some heavy paper to be covered by the tide . I retrieved it later to work on it with watercolour paint letting the tidal sand deposits left on the paper act as a barrier to the paint getting to the paper. An experiment working with tide and the random nature of sand deposits in painting.
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'Always Here' Is actually a set of time lapse phot

'Always Here' Is actually a set of time lapse photos . The pictures were taken as the tide came in- covering the words but they’re displayed in reverse so that when viewed left to right the words “emerge” from the tide rather than get covered by it. More experimental work about time and the tides of the Solway.
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