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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.

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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

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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

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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.

#joedias #oilpainting #fineart #solway #cumbria #artworkforsale #buyart #hospiceathome #lakedistrict #opengallery #openartstudio

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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.
#joedias #oilpainting #fineart #solway #cumbria #artworkforsale #buyart #sheepdogs #farming #rurallife

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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.
#joedias #art #oilpainting #fineart #dock #solway #Cumbria #Portcarlisle #artworkforsale

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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.
#solway #joedias #diasfineart #terrier #fineart #environmentalart #tidalart #dogs #landscapes #joedias #oilpainting #fineart #solway #cumbria #artworkforsale #buyart

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'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.
#solwayartist #cumbrianartist #sandwriting #diasfineart

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Standing on the viaduct looking towards Criffel, Scotland. Magic Winter sun.

#criffel #bownessonsolway #joedias #diasfineart #cumbrianartist #solwayart #bownessviaduct

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Shore at Bowness-on-Solway
Out walking in the freezing cold, with a low sun. Dill the dog in tow. #joedias #fineart #landscapepainting #cumbrianartist #diasfineart #winterwalk #artistinspiration

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Old Jetty Port Carlisle, Cumbria.
Oil on canvas. Even I am too young to remember when this was a jetty! Years ago it was used to embark passengers and goods for the packet ships out to Ireland and in back up the canal to the basin in Carlisle. I painted it with fond memories of looking for crabs and minnows in the pools when the tide was out being watched over by big sister Sue and my older cousins Patsy, Liz et al. Quiet a tribe of us at Port back then.
#portcarlisle #solway #dock #ebbtide #scottishview #oilpainting #joedias #oilpainting #fineart #solway #cumbria #artworkforsale #buyart

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Dent Dale's Soul Function
Acrylic on canvas 92 x 66 cm

#Dentdale #mistyvalley #acrylicpainting #impastopainting #joedias #oilpainting #fineart #solway #cumbria #artworkforsale #buyart

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'Hope Gill Head from the summit of Griesdale Pike' - Giclee digital print 550 x 400mm
Taken from an original oil painting.
Please see website for prices.
#griesdalepike #gicleeprints #hopegillhead #joedias #oilpainting #fineart #solway #cumbria #artworkforsale #buyart

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'Autumn's Eternity turning' - Acrylic and mixed media on canvas.
Part of the Fairfield Horseshoe in extreme weather conditions.
#lakedistrict #fairfieldhorseshoe #joedias #oilpainting #fineart #solway #cumbria #artworkforsale #buyart

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Flood at Liddles- Oil on canvas- 30.5 cm x 23 cm
Traditional Haaf netting for salmon and sea trout in the solway estuary, but we can now only fish for sea trout.
This painting was based on an image I took back in the seventies on a day when I wasn’t fishing, but since the strict regulations on catching migratory fish there aren't nearly as many people Haaf netting these days. These people ( at the end of the village at Bowness )are fishing a flood tide- it’s coming in, so the folk at the far end are getting deeper and deeper! When the water gets too deep they wade back in and join the end of the line at the shallowest side.
#solway #haafnetting #cumbria #joedias #oilpainting #fineart #solway #cumbria #artworkforsale #buyart

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‘Authority of Elements’ - Acrylic on canvas.
A painting about the human intervention in the landscape and being subsumed by the elements.

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#cumbrianartist #fineart #lakedistrict #joedias #oilpainting #fineart #solway #cumbria #artworkforsale #buyart

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