Paula Dunn

Sep 11, 2013

Staithes Festival of Arts and Heritage

The weekend of the 14 and 15 September I will be at the Staithes Festival of Arts and Heritage and will be based at Anchor Cove with fellow Saltaire resident Ian Burdall and his fantastic photographs.  Anchor Cove is right in the village at the bottom by the Cod and Lobster. As I currently hav...

Sep 07, 2013

Have you ever been to Skinningrove?

Well yes I have... in fact two of my paintings currently with TOGS are of Skinningrove! So it's been a week since the opening of my exhibition with The Old Grammar School Gallery in Otley and wow what a preview evening.  Lots of people turned up and it was non-stop all evening.  So apologies t...

Sep 04, 2013

Cloth and Memory [2], Salts Mill

[gallery type="rectangular" ids="1419,1417,1420,1421,1422"] The attic space in Salts Mill isn't normally open to the public so when they put on an exhibition I tend to go along just to have another nose around the space.  Unlike the rest of the building this is a floor which has been left pretty...

Aug 30, 2013

Sneaky peek...

So it's Friday night and for a change we're not in the pub (well not yet anyway!) Instead we have been busy installing my exhibition at TOGS which officially opens with the preview on the evening of Saturday 31 August. So I thought I'd give you a laugh at the chaos I caused - seriously how many t...

Aug 28, 2013

Skinningrove... with wiggly road and pigeon sheds

[gallery ids="1376,1377,1378,1379,1380,1381,1382,1383,1384,1385,1386,1387"] Skinningrove is the last painting to be completed for the TOGS exhibition which starts on 31 August.  It's a medium sized painting at 91 x 76 cm... ok medium sized for me compared to the usual sized canvases I work on bu...

Aug 25, 2013

The (manic..!) preparation for an exhibition

My solo exhibition is fast approaching and true to form I am now panicking about whether I have enough paintings despite dropping off work with TOGS yesterday and thinking that I may have too many big pieces... the fact is that until I help Zack hang the work on Friday I will not be happy and eve...