Paula Dunn

Jul 20, 2013

Fair weather painter...

[gallery type="rectangular" ids="1207,1219,1228,1222,1221,1220"] So we had a couple of weeks away and I was determined that I would make use of the time to do some painting en plein air.  Not something I usually do because of the size of canvas, the difficulty with transporting wet canvases and ...

Jul 17, 2013

Mickleden Valley's new home

[gallery type="square" ids="1239,1241,1240"] Margaret and Martin have sent in a few photos of Mickleden Valley in their lovely home in Sowerby Bridge.

Jul 13, 2013

Eilean Shona wildlife (more precisely pine martins!)

[gallery type="square" ids="1088,1087,1072,1073,1065,1069"] This is the second of my blog posts on Eilean Shona and this one is dedicated to the wildlife of the island but more precisely the pine martins.  Now these critters are one of the main reasons why there is no need for any televisions, D...

Jul 10, 2013

The bunting may have been packed away...

[caption id="attachment_1212" align="alignnone" width="584"] Where has everyone gone?[/caption] ...but we're still receiving lovely reviews of our open house. May bank holiday seems such a long time ago... even more so with the weather being all over the place.  Still it was lovely to discover ...

Jul 06, 2013

The Three Sisters, Glencoe

[gallery type="square" columns="4" ids="1192,1193,1194,1195,1197,1198,1199,1200,1202"] We travelled through Glencoe on our way up to Eilean Shona on a very wet, typically Scottish day and literally dived out of the car to take some quick photos of these magnificent beasts when I realised that th...

Jul 02, 2013

New prints - Whernside and Ribblehead Viaduct

I now have limited edition giclee prints of Whernside and Ribblehead Viaduct and I'm really pleased with them.  The original painting is enormous and so I was a little worried that scaling down the image so much would lose some of the impact.  In reality the prints were never going to compete wi...