A Much Needed Rest

Art PracticeJo MylesJanuary 4, 2022art, artist, wellbeing, planning, big project, sky, sky arts, glyndebourne, rest

I Wish I Was...

On the hottest day in the last 100 years, I rocked up very early (7am) to Hackney Reservoir to find the very organised StoryVault productions having set up a very impressive staging for #laoty day of filming.

Landscape Artist-Sky ArtsJo MylesFebruary 17, 2021landscape artist of the year, landscape, artist, art competition, arts, paint, pandemic, painter, painting, sky, sky arts, uk artistComment

A Misty Venice Morning

This one is based on a trip Jason & I made to Venice back in 2016, I was missing traveling and yearned to be in a different clime. Venice is stunning on any given day, on the day I took the picture this is based on it was before the sun had burnt off the misty start to the day. It gave an ethereal insight into Venice for me and I just love the smokiness of this painting.

Landscape Artist-Sky ArtsJo MylesFebruary 15, 2021paint, preperation, pandemic, painter, painting, art competition, landscape artist of the year, landscape, venice, sky, sky arts, artist, uk artist

Newhaven Pier 2020

This is a beautiful small burst of colour and my first timed canvas taking me just over 2 hours to complete. It really helped to take the pressure off me knowing I could create a work of art I love well within the time allowed in the heat. Anything after this piece was more about keeping my hand in than timeframes so a really significant work of art in the process for me.

Landscape Artist-Sky ArtsJo MylesFebruary 15, 2021sky, sky arts, art competition, arts, artist, paint, pandemic, painter, landscape artist of the year, landscape, painting, preperation

A Friendly Farm Sign

So in the first lock-down, we were unable to have all our blended family together. Our family is made up of 3 households with kids in each, Jason and I are the link to them all and we absolutely love having them all together. Because of C_19 in the first lock-down, some households were shielding and together we decided until more was known about the pandemic that we would stay apart and all keep safe.

Landscape Artist-Sky ArtsJo MylesFebruary 15, 2021landscape, landscape artist of the year, paint, painter, painting, pandemic, sky arts, sky

My Submission Painting

A painting very close to my heart.

This was part of an open call exhibition for the 2019 Lewes ArtWave, exhibited in Newhaven as part of an artist’s organised open call. I had 2 works of art exhibited in that year’s ArtWave festival. This beauty and another artwork as part of a curated exhibition at The Depot in Lewes.

Sitting by The Dock of The Ouse. 2019.

Acrylics, enamel, silver guild, oil pastels & graphite.

Landscape Artist-Sky ArtsJo MylesFebruary 2, 2021landscape artist of the year, landscape, painting, pandemic, sky, sky arts, newhaven, paint, painter, arts, artist, art competition, uk artist

Art I Made Before my Heat

I was so pleased to be back in my art studio and the prospect of making art again after a few months of home-blooming-schooling was filling me with joy! For those of you that are new to my blog, I had given up my art studio to my partner and eldest son in the first lock-down.

Landscape Artist-Sky ArtsJo MylesJanuary 25, 2021landscape artist of the year, landscape, art competition, artist, sky arts, sky, painter, painting, pandemic, preperation

How I started to prepare

After the initial excitement/shock/joy started to wear off I started thinking… you haven’t painted for 7 months.

Landscape Artist-Sky ArtsJo MylesJanuary 18, 2021landscape artist of the year, landscape, art competition, artist, sky, sky arts, arts, uk artist