Paula Dunn

The last seven days have been spent painting from a photograph of Skinningrove by Ian Burdall.  It's not my usual sea-scape but when I saw Ian's image 6 months ago I was really taken by how powerful it was and he kindly let me use his image to work on. From the start I thought that the usual siz...

This painting has been driving me mad for some time now and I really could put my finger on why I wasn't happy with it.  Some paintings get you that way, thankfully not that often otherwise I'd never finish anything!  So had a bit of a brain wave and decided to frame it to see how that work and c...

Well... it is what it is....?!  Need to get Nick working on some inspirational titles for these paintings.  Anyhoo this is one of hopefully a collection of paintings which will be unveiled (I know sounds so grand!) at this year's Saltaire Arts Trail at the end of May.

The paintings are based on photographs taken one evening when a storm was coming in. The minimal light pollution resulted in a ghostly blue haze which inspired me to try and reproduce grainy, hazy, almost abstract paintings. The use of oil paint alone didn't quite achieve what I was look...