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Northumbrian
Landscape Artist |
Joe Hush is a Northumbrian landscape artist
and has been painting professionally for thirteen years.
He was born in
Rothbury in 1951 but was raised in Alnwick.
He tutors for the Workers educational
association and demonstrate at many art clubs and societies
throughout North-east..
Living in and
around beautiful countryside in Northumberland has certainly been an
inspiration for my paintings.
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Originally I worked for Hardy Bros of Alnwick making fishing tackle and
moved to Washington in 1976 to do much the same.
I
am a self-taught artist and have painted most of my life for pleasure
but it wasn't until 1993 that I decided to go professional.
I
started by undertaking commissions of country homes and farms whilst out
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commissions came through word of mouth that led to several Art
Exhibitions in Chester-le-Street, Durham and Alnwick.
My
work is now distributed throughout the UK. I am also kept busy with
demonstrations at Art Societies and as a tutor at evening classes, which
I find both enjoyable and fulfilling.
I am
primarily a landscape artist, from open moorland to the depths of the
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I
am inspired by the shadowy interiors of woodland, the sunlit areas where
the canopy is more open and tracks leading through trees.
Light can
transform an otherwise uninteresting subject into something that
inspires you enough to paint it.
Imagine a wooded
walk on a dull day, muted tones of greens and greys, then the sun breaks
through the clouds and immediately casts shadows across the earth track,
not now dull but an earth warmed by the sunlight. |
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shadows continue to flow over an uneven track and multicoloured grass
mounds; bright greens, dark greens, ochre, sienna's and perhaps rays of
sunlight show through the columns of trees ~ now is the time to capture
it in your minds eye and in a sketch.
Importantly, remember it, when you next walk along another wooded walk
on a dull day.
When I paint I like to try to capture and convey my feeling of a
particular day. |
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I
often remain mesmerised by seeing a scene materialise onto paper or
canvas and can spend as much time looking at my work as I do actually
painting it!
http://www.joehush.co.uk/
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