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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 Lake District Fells.

Last couple of days left of the evan open studios Last couple of days left of the evan  open studios art trail, finishes on the 20th Sept. Thank you to everyone who has taken the time and trouble to come and visit the studio in the wilds of Raughton Head near Dalston.
We’ve had lots of lovely visitors and comments and sales! If you didn’t make it this time or want to return please just contact me.

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A lovely sunny day for the opening of the EVAN ar A lovely sunny day for the opening  of the EVAN art trail. Running every day until the 20th Sept from 10am until 4pm at my studio in Raughton Head. The event includes dozens of other artists at different locations on the art trail. See the EVAN art web site for details for their locations and opening times to plan your route.
Scan the QR code to have information on the evan a Scan the QR code to have information on the evan art trail which I’m involved with in my studio at home this year. Starts on 5th of September. It would be great to see you here! 

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Jigsaw on the shore. Oil on canvas on board. Keep Jigsaw on the shore. Oil on canvas on board. 
Keeping an eye on what’s happening at your feet as well as the big picture I find is always a good idea. Can’t get past what washes up right in front of me sometimes. This and other new work will be on show at my studio during the evan art trail 5th to 20thSeptember.
Eycott Hill near Berrier, northern Lake District. Eycott Hill near Berrier, northern Lake District. A commission newly delivered. Cumbria Wildlife Trust manage Eycott and do a wonderful job. There are walkways to preserve peat land, information points and a small car park. The best bits are the Belted Galloway cattle on the open fell and the wildflower meadow before that. Both of the latter were requested by the people who commissioned the painting!

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Thinking about another flight over the Solway. Alw Thinking about another flight over the Solway. Always worth looking back over old drawings and photos taken during previous flights for inspiration.
“From Blackstone,Arnside”. 60x42cm, 23x16ins. Oil “From Blackstone,Arnside”. 60x42cm, 23x16ins. Oil on canvas. This is just a section of the whole image. The tides on the Kent estuary are sometimes so rapid a coast guard horn sounds when it turns to come in. Then from round the corner- it’s heard before it’s seen, there might be surfers, canoeists and kayakers on the crest of the bore wave riding it in to the railway viaduct.

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This is almost the whole image, wouldn’t fit on th This is almost the whole image, wouldn’t fit on the earlier one.
“Liminal man #2 O’Donoghue’s Turf Man Risen” 39x23 “Liminal man #2 O’Donoghue’s Turf Man Risen” 39x23cm 15x 9ins oil on canvas board.
The next in the turf cutting series. This one appears to be as much a hymn to a bog body rising out of the peat as it is to Christianity. The body shape I borrowed heavily from a work by Hughie O’Donoghue but suggested not only a floating up from a bog but also another reappearance- a resurrection.

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“Liminal man #1 The turf cutter”. (The Sleánadóir) “Liminal man #1 The turf cutter”. (The Sleánadóir) pronounced “Shlawndor”- (thank you Seamus McDonnell) . Oil on canvas board 25x12ins 64x30cm. Turf or peat cutting was as much a part of life on the Solway plain as anything else. ‘Up on the Moss’  is a place of magic and mystery. Wildlife abounds, Adder and grass snakes thrive, mysterious fires can start, ponds and bogs appear then go, swampy gullies and waths can be dangerous, people live off grid up there and some have disappeared. My friend Ian and I used to cut peat for the fire when we were younger- all stopped now I think. Pre Christian rituals would sometimes see people buried in bogs, the reasons are at best ambiguous at worst, more macabre. Anyway I’m working on paintings that are reactions to memory and myth combined.

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New painting, harbinger of something bigger I thin New painting, harbinger of something bigger I think. It’s only 14 x12 ins or 36x30 cm. The title is “There’s a reason why it’s always empty there”. In my own way I’m still exploring doubt ambiguity and uncertainty but the framework is the Solway Firth. All estuaries are uncertain places for me and can evoke fear, external and from within. Water surging through threatened banks can create a fresh view with every tide. It’s a place of flux and fluidity. Not a place for the unwary. 

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evan art gallery in Penrith have an open exhibitio evan art gallery in Penrith have an open exhibition exhibition for all their artists. A lovely opening event last night with live music and refreshments. It was great to meet some of the other artists in the group, a very talented and dedicated bunch of people. It was very interesting and inspiring talking to people about their ideas and how they navigate their artistic journey. 

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The sun is shining for the final day of ‘Around th The sun is shining for the final day of ‘Around the Island Art Trail’ lots of artist’s studios to visit around Bowness and Port Carlisle.
Thank you to all our visitors who came to see my work at the lovely Chapel in Port Carlisle.

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Setting up for tomorrows opening of Around The Isl Setting up for tomorrows opening of Around The Island Art Trail. I’m in the Chapel at Port Carlisle. Eleven until five Saturday and Sunday this weekend and next weekend. I just counted up, forty two pieces of work on show, original oil paintings, acrylics, watercolours and prints. There’s even some written work as well. All inspired by the Solway. Lots of other artists on show around the trail also.

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Getting prepared to transport work to my round the Getting prepared to transport work to my round the island art trail venue at Port Carlisle Chapel. Weekends of the 20th and 27th September. Getting excited now. I Must be in the running for finalist of the ‘you could always leave something at home’ category.
Pleased with this latest tide piece as the wanderi Pleased with this latest tide piece as the wandering trails on the bottom right are from little crustaceans that have meandered over the piece of paper. Very happy that the marks survived the water colour and scrubbing off process. This one from a high, but relatively calm tide. Still got a bit torn but that goes with the territory.

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I’ll be taking part in the around the island art t I’ll be taking part in the around the island art trail 20th/21st & 27th/ 28th this September  in the Chapel at Port Carlisle. There are many other artists at venues all around the ‘island’. 
Details at:
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Big tide at North Plain. Oil on board. Newly finis Big tide at North Plain. Oil on board. Newly finished.

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Once the sand is dry I work with water colour pain Once the sand is dry I work with water colour paint, usually spraying it on the paper and sand to disturb the surface as little as possible. Then it’s scrubbing brush and nail brush time. All the sand is removed- it acts as a resist, preventing paint getting onto the paper where the tide deposits it. This is one of the finished pieces. I’m showing this and lots of other work at the Solway artists round the island art trail, last two weekends in September. I’ll be showing in the old chapel at Port Carlisle.

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Two pieces of heavy water colour paper after being Two pieces of heavy water colour paper after being left in the Solway for the tide to cover them , a few hours later I retrieve them, whatever state they’re in, covered in sand and tidal deposits of sea weed etc. what’s there, unless it’s alive and moving, I bring home, let it dry and work with, disturbing what the tide has done as little as possible.

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