Paula Dunn

Mar 14, 2015

This Skeptic Aisle

This Skeptic Aisle by Nick Allen This dredged channel, this barren avenue This ravaged course, this blasted thoroughfare This bleak and concrete way Our shade against the heat of summer Our cover from the sudden storm Arboreal elegance swapped For rough-patched holes in the ground This ...

Jun 18, 2014

New brushes... seriously this is exciting stuff!

OK maybe not exciting for everyone but look at these beauties!  A lovely birthday present from my Dad which I'm saving for a big painting.  Very exciting but must remember to clean them properly after use... !

May 07, 2014

Work in Progress - God's Own #10

[caption id="attachment_1930" align="alignnone" width="584"] God's Own 10[/caption] [gallery ids="1909,1910,1912,1913,1914,1915"] God's Own 10 is one of five paintings featuring in the Maiden Bridge summer show which opens on Saturday 24th May 2014. The exhibition, which consists of thirty sho...

Apr 29, 2014

Staithes Harbour

[gallery ids="1819,1822,1825,1834,1838,1848"] I finished work on this painting about two months ago.  It's now dry and about to go off to be framed but as with all my paintings before they go anywhere I need to photograph them so I decided that this evening, as the weather was dry and the sun ...

Feb 07, 2014

The end of a series?

[gallery type="rectangular" ids="462,461,465,463,467,466"] Last week the only painting I had left from my Cuba series sold.  I wasn't quite sure whether I was happy or sad about this.  On the one hand I was pleased that the last painting had found a home, and on the other I was really sad that I...

Feb 02, 2014

Not quite cupid...

So February is the month where the card industry tempts us into buying more stuff we never really need... so what are we doing? Well we're giving cards away. Yup you heard, free cards! So on February 14 another lucky person's name will be drawn from the "Good Luck Fairy" (the new random number...