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Displayed at such prestigious locations in the UK as The Shakespeare Trust properties, The National Trust, the Ferens Gallery and internationally at the Bruce Museum in New York.

Gallery News and Exhibitions About Me Contact JudithDonaghy.com Original landscape art, semi-abstract art, fine art and art classes. Please contact Judith for enquiries. hello@JudithDonaghy.com Artwork Archive Type and hit enter Recent Posts Lockdown Exhibition Cheshire Art Gallery 2020 Painters Tube Magazine Feature Art North Wales Live Painting Weekend Anglessey Open Studios Recent Comments Archives November 2020 May 2020 April 2020 November 2019 August 2019 July 2019 April 2019 November 2018 October 2018 June 2018 April 2018 March 2018 November 2017 October 2017 September 2017 May 2017 April 2017 March 2017 February 2017 January 2017 December 2016 November 2016 October 2016 August 2016 April 2016 February 2016 November 2015 October 2015 September 2015 August 2015 March 2015 February 2015 January 2015 November 2014 October 2014 September 2014 August 2014 April 2014 March 2014 May 2012 April 2012 March 2012 July 2011 Meta Log in Entries feed Comments feed WordPress.org Copyright © 2020 JudithDonaghy.com. All Rights Reserved. About Me & My Work Judith Donaghy Portrait Judith Donaghy-Artist In the studio earlier in the year 2014 Studio picture Stockport Art Gallery 2013 Born in Frodsham Cheshire, I now divide my time between Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire and Anglesey, North Wales where I have my studios. I paint in oil with palette knives and brushes on canvas mainly from my studios, sometimes plein air, favouring subjects that allow me an element of freedom to express my ideas. My work features in galleries in the UK and private collections abroad and I have been fortunate to have paintings included in both solo, and mixed exhibitions. A former textile designer, colour, texture and design have always been important to me when conveying particular feelings in an artwork. For over 20 years, now, I have been exploring and discovering new ways of saying things in my work; so much so that my way of painting has become largely second nature, relying on instinct and experience to guide my hand. I try to capture the atmosphere and emotion of the landscape by first making small sketches and gathering information before heading back to the studio to paint. I love starting a new work and paint freely at first allowing my mind free rein, enjoying the creative and instinctive process before adding more detail. I find it interesting to compare the work I did some years ago with the work I produce today. To some extent I have moved away from geometric, quite formal shapes, although some vertical structures can still be found in recent work. In the early years these formal lines and shapes became synonymous with my paintings, the signature style by which my work was recognised. My recent work is softer, more intuitive and impressionistic.

Jan Gardner was born and brought up in North Wales and spent much of her early years wandering the lanes and hills around her home. It was here that the light, space and colours that inhabit her work first became an influence. Drawing on these memories and experiences of special places and her later travels in Europe, Morocco and the U.S.A.; she crafts vivid and atmospheric works. Colours that fly in from emotion and passion, relaying a deep connection with the varied, differing landscapes from which they evolve. The life affirming quality of her work is gleaned from her desire to look further, texture, mark-making and layering becomes apparent, a legacy from her time spent at Winchester School of Art. One of the most noticeable aspects of Jan`s work is her use of rich, magical colours, subtle nuances with the range of water-based media, something that has pre-occupied her for many years, linking the response to pure colours and the spiritual. This free and fluid approach is firmly based on field work, observation and visual note-taking, where source material, objects and forms are gathered as reference materials, then sensitively filtered to contribute to the rhythm and composition of a new piece. The historical and contemporary use of colour within the artistic practice of the Fauves, Impressionists, Expressionists, and Scottish Colourists has also been an inspiration and influence. Unsurprisingly, given this passion for and belief in colour’s powerful qualities, Jan’s educational work is also a powerful source of inspiration. Working with groups via residencies, in often challenging circumstances, and where people may never have really engaged before with colour, her belief in people’s latent creative capacity is regularly inspired by their rapt and sustained engagement, and by the free and confident colour pieces produced by all ages and abilities in astonishingly short periods of time.

Exhibitions all over the UK, I decided to turn all my energies to a career in painting about seven years ago. 

Ann Lewis is the President of the Royal Cambrian Academy and works from a studio in her house near Conwy. She is an amazing reduction linocut printmaker whose work is sought after.

Versatile artist, author, and illustrator whose creative voyage started with ancient history and transformed into a lifelong passion for art

Exhibited and sold work in solo shows and group exhibitions - most notably in the National Portrait Gallery's “BP Portrait Award”, the Royal Society of Portrait Painters at the Mall Gallery, and the Dulwich Picture Gallery.