Contemporary Online Art Gallery

Original Paintings, Private Commissions

Contemporary Online Art Gallery of original paintings, private commissions and limited edition prints by Scottish artist John Stoa from Dundee.
This website shows original paintings and fine art prints including Scottish Landscape paintings, and romantic art, and figurative paintings with the artist's Scottish model, flower paintings, and John's other love, snow scenes in Scotland, in his winter landscapes.

An early summer trip to Islay and Jura in the Inner Hebrides last year, gave John many ideas for a range of Scottish landscape watercolour paintings. The trip coincided with the annual whisky festival on Islay, an occasion not to be missed.
The west coast islands enjoys dry sunny weather with clean beaches of pure white sand and views over the water to Northern Ireland and Arran on the Scottish mainland.

A range of contemporary stretched box canvas, which do not need framing, painted with large bold flowers and still life can be seen at Box Canvas Art and landscape paintings of Rait village in Perthshire at triptych paintings

Art Collection and Archive
Contemporary paintings previously shown on the main web pages, but now replaced with John's latest works can still be seen on the following links.

Landscape Paintings , and Winter Pictures ,

Romantic Art Paintings , and Figurative Art

Private Commissions
Capture that special moment with a private commission for your favourite landscape, pet, home, event or a very special lady portrait or nude of any age.

Affordable Art Prints
Art prints are now available of most of John's original paintings. They are all A4 size and priced at £20 each delivered free in UK. A new website page has been created to show the best of these at art prints.

Limited Edition Prints..(Free Delivery in UK)
John's fine art prints ( over 30 ) extend the range with Scottish towns including Edinburgh, featuring Edinburgh Castle, and Perth.
As Dundee is John's home town he has naturally created several prints of Dundee City in all seasons and as a sunset and beach landscape picture of Broughty Ferry.

Other scenes include the Scottish Highlands, with fantastic atmospheric feeling in Glencoe, and the Isle of Skye, and sailing boats on romantic Loch Lomond for those in a loving mood. More Romantic images include landscape watercolour paintings of sunset at Broughty Ferry, figure studies, sensual art, nude models, and red roses.

Scottish Art with Music
A selection of paintings by John can be seen on Youtube from this link to Scottish Art, compiled by art lover Andrina Lejon an ex Scots, who never lost her romantic gene, now living in Canada.
See her latest romantic book, Garden Dream.

PRIVATE ART LESSONS
One to one tuition can be arranged to suit those who desire a more intensive approach to improving their artistic abilities.

A range of lessons can be structured to individual needs in John's Dundee studio with sessions of two hours with a fee of £25 per hour.
Online tuition by email and the internet is ideal for those too far away to travel to Dundee.

John's Art Career
He started working life in 1959 as a gardener in Dundee and his horticultural career advanced at a fast pace with travel all over Britain, and a head full of landscaping ideas, however, he always painted in his spare time as a form of art therapy, then as he found success with his love of painting, he became a full time artist in 1992. The home garden is now the hobby.
To see more details on John's CV click this link to his bibliography
This will also show his one man shows, private commissions, and other gallery exhibitions.

Allotment Gardening Art
John gets the 2008 TOP AWARD
John rented a plot in 2006 on Dundee City Council's City Road Allotment Garden site to grow crops, and find a new source of ideas to paint with old sheds, greenhouses, fences and walls and dilapidated garden structures of great character perfect to capture on canvas.
Some of these paintings can be seen on this link to allotment gardening.
John's love of gardening has paid dividends with his experimenting with warm climate crops in Scotland possible with global warming. Grapes, peaches and Figs are now all growing outdoors on trial. John's allotment won the award for the best allotment in Dundee in the Councils Britain in Bloom competition in 2008.
SASKATOONS
John is also experimenting with growing a new fruit crop of Saskatoons on his allotment garden and keeping a diary of events as the young bushes mature.
Have a look on the progress of John's superfood Saskatoons , the new berry to hit the fruit garden. The bushes produced their first small crop of fruit in July 2007, after a record breaking spell of wet and sunless weather, so early superfood tastings left a lot to be desired. However although 2008 was even worse it did get excellent weather up to the end of May so the resultant second crop of 9 lbs was quite good.
The 2009 crop was fantastic with an average of 5 pounds fruit from each bush, then in 2010 I had more fruit than I could use.
A long severe winter seemed to suit the bushes and our 2011 crop was immense, so the fruit is now being used to brew some fantastic wine.
The success was featured on television when Jim McColl from the Beechgrove Garden filmed John, his allotment and his saskatoon adventures, then the following year the saskatoons were featured on Landward TV.

Plants in pots were a sellout at Gardening Scotland at Ingliston in Edinburgh in June 2011.
Young plants are now ready for mail order sales.

More information on my saskatoon page.

Scottish garden pictures
The home and garden of artist John Stoa from Dundee can be seen from these thumbnail links.
John's love of horticulture is evident in the development and design of his large garden full of fruit and flowers in bloom all year round, many of which get captured on canvas.

This garden is well planted, mature and has a wealth of subject matter ready for painting.
Please feel free to have a wander around the garden by clicking the link to Scottish garden pictures, or these other links Outdoor Plants and then Fruit Growing, and for the patio gardener, Hanging baskets and tubs ,and Flowering Bulbs , and then a border for the Rose Bushes and from November to March, in the dark months the Winter Garden is outstanding with the bright colours of the dogwoods, kerria, and Leycesteria underplanted with drifts of snowdrops.

John has included a link to a page for Garden Trees suited to the small garden, now that the young trees have put on a bit of growth.

New blog
John is now writing a weekly gardening feature for the Dundee Courier pull out magazine in the Saturday paper.
It will be archived in The Artist and his Garden blog.

Follow my gardening activities and new paintings on my new blogspot.
Last week it was all about root crops and this week the greenhouse is overflowing.

Interior Design and Corporate Art
Large contemporary paintings and stretched box canvas can be very appropriate for Corporate and interior design use.
Company promotions often use art for calendars, Christmas cards, prints, and retirement gifts and to record special events, eg. "Tall Ships Race", "Dundee's Octocentenary Celebrations" and "A Moment in Time" painted for the Millenium.

Contact :
The studio can be found on this map of Dundee.

To enquire about the price of any painting please phone or email John at his studio in Dundee and to make a purchase, see the buy art online page.



Original Art
17a Menzieshill Road, Dundee, DD2 1PS, Scotland UK

Telephone : 44 (0) 1382 665879
Email : johnstoa@blueyonder.co.uk
Website : www.johnstoa.com

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