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Joe Dias – Cumbrian Landscape Artist

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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.

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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Often trying out the great man’s techniques. Some Often trying out the great man’s techniques. Some of mine work better than others. Of course he was bang on every time. Heresy I know but I never liked his rainbow on Crummock water (Crummack he called it)..so I left it out on my version.

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Early morning Moricambe Bay. This frame and piece Early morning Moricambe Bay. This frame and piece of bog oak used to have another painting in it which was damaged. This place is on the shore near Anthorn opposite an old chapel. This particular part of the Solway isn’t the main estuary of the Esk, Nith and Eden but of the smaller Wampool and Waver that joins the main estuary at Grune point, Skinburness.

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Installing the aforementioned. Installing the aforementioned.
Finished at last and just put in place at the owne Finished at last and just put in place at the owners house this week. Sunrise near Sandsfield on the Solway Firth near Burgh by Sands. Two metres wide at the base and one high! To fit on a gable end in a house. Been a long job. Tricky to hang as well, owners very happy. I photographed it mirroring the gable in my studio which was fortunate so you can see how it will work on the triangular shaped wall. Many thanks to the ‘committee’ who helped me hang it and to Mike Nixon picture framers in Carlisle who made me the stretcher and good advice on the best method for hanging it. 

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Thanks to everyone who donated to cancer research Thanks to everyone who donated to cancer research UK during my recent exhibition at intro at Carlisle. This amount was raised solely through donations into the collection bucket.
Penultimate day of exhibition tomorrow. Bringing e Penultimate day of exhibition tomorrow. Bringing even more paintings in tomorrow to fill in gaps. Been a busy Sunday.

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All going well at the exhibition at Intro Gallery, All going well at the exhibition at Intro Gallery, 7 Paternoster Row, Carlisle. Fantastic space, open until Tuesday night. Work is selling fast and have already had to return to the studio for more pieces 🤗 #joedias #oilpainting #fineart #solway #cumbria #artworkforsale #buyart #lakedistrict #fineartist #painting #ukscenery #explorebritain #earthfocus #visitbritain #thenorth  #artist #landscape #solwayartist #lakedistrictart #cumbrianartist #Intro #haafnetfishing #notjustlakes #painter
There’s an article on Cumbria Crack about the exhi There’s an article on Cumbria Crack about the exhibition of my new art work at intro in Carlisle starting on Wednesday for a week. Link in Story #whatsonincumbria #art #gallery #solway #cumbrianartist #exhibition #lakedistrict #landscapepainting #painting #notjustlakes
127x 92cm. Nocturne, Great End from Sty Head Tarn. 127x 92cm. Nocturne, Great End from Sty Head Tarn. Takes on a different life at night. This is the latest one, it, and many others will be at the new show next week, Carlisle’s historic quarter, Paternoster Row, intro. 

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Once I’ve stretched the canvas, sized it a couple Once I’ve stretched the canvas, sized it a couple of times, sanding the rough bits off between coats, a couple of coats of gesso primer will give a good surface to take paint. Of course if you use smaller ready stretched canvases none of this is needed. However I usually coat them with more gesso for a smoother canvas with less “tooth”.
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