Publications
My work has been featured in a number of book designs and I am the author of Atmospheric Landscapes, due to be published by Crowood Press in October 2025.
Atmospheric landscapes is due to be published by Crowood Press in October 2025. A practical book which focuses on my process for creating beautiful paintings with depth and atmosphere.
This October, Yorkshire-based painter Paula Dunn launches her debut book, Atmospheric Landscapes: Using Oils and Cold Wax (Crowood Press). The book offers an inspiring and practical guide to creating landscapes rich in texture, layered with light, and alive with atmosphere.
A painter in oils for over twenty years, Paula discovered cold wax during a residency in Ireland with American abstract artist Rebecca Crowell. The medium transformed her approach – replacing rigid planning with intuition, and shifting her work from representational vistas to layered, often abstracted evocations of place.
Atmospheric Landscapes shares the techniques that underpin her practice: layering and scraping paint, balancing transparency with opacity, embedding materials like marble dust and gold leaf, and embracing the fluid space between abstraction and representation. With exercises, examples, and creative insights, it invites artists of all levels to explore a freer, more experimental way of working in oils.
Publications available also include collections by Yorkshire poet, Nick Allen. Nick has published four pamphlets and one collection of poetry, since 2017. His collection, the riding, was described by Helen Mort as “a hungry, searching collection from a poet who tackles every subject…with generosity, passion and inventiveness”, was published by Half Moon Books (2018).
