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Contemporary
Online Art Gallery of figurative art and limited edition
prints by Scottish artist John Stoa is dedicated to showing original
paintings and fine art prints including Scottish
Landscape paintings,
erotic art, and romantic
art with the artist model, still life, flower paintings,
figurative paintings
and John's other special interest of winter
landscapes.
A
range of contemporary stretched box canvas painted with large flowers
and still life can be seen on this link to Box
Canvas Art.
These box canvas do not need framing.
Website pages also show a wide range of Scottish flowers from his
garden around his studio, and his contemporary triptych
canvas art landscape paintings.
Original paintings of contemporary art can make an excellent
investment as well as a retirement
gift.
Limited
Edition Prints ........(Free
Delivery in UK)
John's fine art prints ( over
30 ) extend the range with pictures of 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.
For more information on the history, business, culture and leisure
activities in his home town visitors can find everything on this
link to Dundee
City.
Other
scenes include the Scottish
Highlands, with great 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 sunsets,
figures, erotic art, nude models, and red roses.
Visitors
to Dundee are very welcome to come to John's studio and see his
gallery of latest images and purchase any painting or print at studio
prices. Please phone John to arrange a time for your visit.
Directions
to John's studio is marked on this
Dundee
street map.
AUTUMN
ART CLASSES
John
will be starting more afternoon and evening art classes in the autumn
and posting information here in August 2008.
PRIVATE
ART LESSONS
One
to one tuition can be arranged to suit those who desire a more intensive
approach to improving their artistic abilities.
Ideal for young students preparing a portfolio for submission for
entry to an art college, mature students ready to embrace the real
art world with a new career, but needs to know about running an
art business, and the mature person wishing to improve their ability
to paint a great picture.
A range of lessons can be structured to individual needs, but normally
John will run sessions of two hours with a fee of £30 per
hour.
Tuition online by email and the internet is ideal for those too
far away to travel to Dundee.
A private tuition gift voucher can make an excellent retirement
or birthday gift or for a special occasion.
ART HOLIDAY WORKSHOPS 2008..............
(Two and Five Day courses every month begining in
March)
A programme of art holiday workshops is arranged to cover a
wide range of topics, mediums and indoor as well as outdoor painting.
A holiday atmosphere is encouraged, with an excellent home cooked
lunch on the sunny patio, demonstrations, and trips to local
painting locations such as scenic Scottish villages in Angus and
Tayside.
"Painting
Scottish Villages"
A five day outdoor art workshop from Monday 18th August
to Friday 22nd August 2008. Local villages around Dundee include
Glamis, Alyth and Rait.
See
Art
classes and Art Workshops for
more information.
Accommodation with bed and breakfast in Dundee may
be available at John's Studio just off the Perth Road. Please check
the proprietor Anna Anderson's website www.scottishartiststudio.com
for information and prices.
Other accommodation can be found from a list of nearby local hotels,
guest houses and B & B supplied by John on request.
The art studio has south and east facing windows which offer fantastic
views over the River
Tay to the Kingdom of Fife, always enjoyed by John's art
class students and other holiday guests staying for bed and breakfast.
Some
of the student's paintings can be seen at
art class exhibition 2003 , and art
class exhibition 2004 , and
art class exhibition 2005 , and
art class exhibition 2006
, and
art class exhibition 2007,
and art class exhibition 2008
John's
Art Career began in 1992
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, although his specialism
is still in demand for gardening advice and landscape
design ideas.
To see John's CV click this link to his bibliography
This will also show his one man shows, private commissions, and
other gallery exhibitions.
Hand
Made Paper. John has created several figure studies on hand
made paper which can be seen on this link to HAND
MADE PAPER.
Allotment
Gardening
John has recently rented a plot 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.
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, many of which get
captured on canvas.
Art class and art workshop students often paint around the studio
garden in summer, or whenever weather is suitable.
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.
Autumn crops of raspberries and strawberries are now
a regular feature on John's allotment site. See his perpetual
strawberry Flamenco.
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.
Have a look on the progress of John's Saskatoons
which he is hoping will produce a crop in Scottish soil
and climatic conditions, which vary tremendously from the prairies
of Canada where they grow in abundance. The bushes produced their
first small crop of fruit in July 2007, after a record breaking
spell of wet and sunless weather, so early tastings left a lot to
be desired, but another (normal) year may tell a different tale.
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.
John's winter snow scenes especially of Edinburgh Castle, are very
popular for charity christmas cards.
Contemporary stretched box canvas images can be in series
and themes and sometimes one image can be covered by several canvases,
ie. a triptych with three connecting paintings as in Rait
village box canvas triptych
There is more information on the Private
Commissions link.
Pittenweem Arts Festival August 2008
Venue 65
The Dundee Boys, ( Two scottish artists, John Stoa and
Jim Dewar ), will be back at the Harbour Guest House, in Pittenweem
for the Pittenweem Arts Festival 2008.
John will have a new range of contemporary art.
See some original painting in the online art gallery from
the Pittenweem
Arts Festival.
Art Collection and Archive
An art collection and archive of contemporary paintings
previously shown on the main web pages, but now replaced with John's
latest works can be seen from the following links.
Landscape Paintings , and Winter
Pictures ,
Romantic
Art Paintings , and Figurative Art
Contact :
John
is happy to show visitors his Scottish painting collection available
in his studio. Please phone to arrange an appointment.
The studio can be found on this
map of Dundee.
To make a purchase, see the buy
art online page.
Most major credit cards accepted.
To discuss private commission,
art classes or art holiday workshops, interior design
paintings, or private one to one tuition,
please contact John at
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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