tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23904296162498731272024-03-05T05:54:01.866+00:00Jo OakleyPainter/Printmaker Living in Herne Bay KentJo Oakleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09607007624508860826noreply@blogger.comBlogger86125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390429616249873127.post-89275902164378165372017-04-24T14:42:00.001+01:002017-04-24T14:42:24.371+01:00Holidaying at Home and Abroad<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Over the Easter holidays I had the good fortune to have a week away with my daughters to Lanzarote. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">We all had never visited this Island so we decided to break up the week staying at two different venues and this proved to be be a great idea as it varied our perspective.<a href="https://www.lanzaroteretreats.com/" target="_blank"> Lanzarote Retreats</a> was our first destination which is close to the beach and a self catering eco establishment. We had Yoga and Pilates in the mornings and then headed out to explore. We discovered an artist called Ceasar Manrique who has a huge influence on the Island which he defended from developers with true passion. His legacy is breathtaking from the architecture of the tourist destinations including a Cactus garden and the longest lava tube in the world to his sculpture and paintings. Visiting his house and studio was eerie as he died in a car crash and so it is as if he could return at any minute especially in his studio where work was in progress and it has been left as it was.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> The second place was surrounded by lava fields and volcanoes, I loved it here. <a href="http://eljallo.com/" target="_blank">El Jallo</a> is a boutique hotel run by a lovely couple who couldn't have been kinder.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I highly recommend a visit!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Plans to use the house for airbnb has been my plan for a while now and now I am going to include 'Rosie' in the listing. She will reside at the end of the garden and once she is settled in I will start taking bookings....it is all very exciting......</span><br />
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Jo Oakleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09607007624508860826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390429616249873127.post-9229444072144322912017-02-14T12:13:00.001+00:002017-03-16T18:57:17.994+00:00Artist Retreats and other Ramblings<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">This is the first blog of the New Year and I feel like I have so much to say, it is very nearly a year since I on reflection put a hand grenade into my life and moved to Herne Bay. The changes that have taken place have been felt in ripples and as I sit here now making plans for the future I am feeling happy.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I have had the idea of inviting like minded creative and hopefully people that have doubt in their creative thoughts to come explore their ideas here.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I have since moving here met some very generous souls and this was truly unexpected but has help nourish the ideas as they have developed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">One of the things I had anticipated was the strong need to be closer to nature and to be able to experience this every day and feel the impact of that.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">My ideas have truly felt like ramblings and I have found it really difficult to formalise them so I am just going to continue to ramble but not just in my mind.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I would like to make the house available at weekends to either practicing painters or printmakers who would like come and work here and make use of studio space and printmaking room with a great press. Have time to walk and think and work enjoying an evening meal at home and or eat out in Herne Bay or Whitstable.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I have space here but have b&b available.... need to reserve early as its very popular.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">The other idea is to have weekend courses focusing on various interests I will be teaching in a student led style. We will enjoy what the season offers us as each one really has its delights as the layers of greys to the brightest blue sky, the wildest of windiest days and the delicate space of a breathless sea.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">All of this putting it simply inspires me and I really want to share it</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I have some dates for the guided weekends with some ideas of what could be expected and achieved</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">the first is.....</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">The weekend of the Friday 12th May-Sunday 14th May</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Arriving Friday night for an evening meal and a sit round the table to discus ideas, the focus will be on using a sketch book. Gathering information and images is so useful in bringing ideas together, images and words can sit together in a sketchbook/journal.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">After breakfast on Saturday we will walk out with this in mind and if the weather is kind we can spend tome looking and recording what we see. After lunch we can start to work on the image that starts to form.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">We will be using paint on Sunday and will use most of the day to bring an image together.....</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Thats it in a nutshell, it will be tweaked to fit applicants as I really know one size does not fit all.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">The second structured course is about the flora and fauna found on coastal walks and a visit to <a href="http://www.grosvenorhousevents.co.uk/" target="_blank">Grosvenor House</a> to see their garden. Frances and I are going to collaborate on this as she has extensive knowledge in this field and is a very talented gardener and all round creative human being.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">We are going to use both our houses to accommodate our guests and we are very excited about the prospect of sharing the experience. This will take place in June 17th & 18th with meeting and greeting and sharing a meal on Friday 16th.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Weekends will be an introductory price of £250 for full board food and tuition.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Partners are welcome and may want to take advantage of great cycling routes and places of interest dotted all along the East Kent Coast. £95.00</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">A course only option is also available for locals.......</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Well thats about it to start and if you need anymore info please do not hesitate to contact me at jooakleyartist@yahoo.com</span><br />
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<br />Jo Oakleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09607007624508860826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390429616249873127.post-90849205780106140712016-04-05T18:18:00.000+01:002016-04-05T18:18:54.359+01:00A New Home<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">After months of having to negotiate the ridiculous way we have to buy and sell houses it happened and I am here. It has been a real revelation to me ....letting go. Letting go of the familiar, letting go of the things you believe you can't live without. Now I don't want to live without the sea, the space and the sky. Taking in the landscape every day whatever the weather is making my mind full of visuals for work and it has started, slowly but surely.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">And then theres the house, there is lots to do but I love it. My studio has a view its small but the window is floor to ceiling.... and then theres the birds, so many of them......</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I look forward to seeing how my work unfolds from this point....I feel braver and my head feels clearer.....watch this space!!</span>Jo Oakleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09607007624508860826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390429616249873127.post-34861303528624851912016-01-25T14:53:00.000+00:002016-01-25T14:53:49.209+00:00Water,Heath&Home<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">My new show Water, Heath & Home opens at the beginning of February, I am showing a new body of work that I think shows a real fluidity that having a year to produce created for me. I am showing with ceramic artist<a href="http://www.jonathancooper.co.uk/artists/81-jacqueline-leighton-boyce/works/" target="_blank"> Jacqueline Leighton Boyce</a> her work draws inspiration from the landscape which surrounds her. Although the medium is different the approach has real similarities to my own and I think our work sits very well together.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><a href="http://www.jonathancooper.co.uk/artists/57-jo-oakley/works/" target="_blank">The show</a> runs from 4th-27th February</span></div>
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Jo Oakleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09607007624508860826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390429616249873127.post-42305243047097066552016-01-11T14:03:00.001+00:002016-01-18T12:38:59.423+00:00Studio Sale.. A January clear out! <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Part of me feels reluctant to start the clear out because the tentative business of buying and selling a house. I have not exchanged contracts yet but it feels close so I am making a positive move, I am making space for it so here goes a Studio Sale!!!!!!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Here are the paintings that need to go to a new home........Please contact me at jooakleyartist@yahoo.com I will take reasonable offers.....dont be shy.</span><br />
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Jo Oakleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09607007624508860826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390429616249873127.post-69209115691647964832015-11-02T14:48:00.000+00:002015-11-02T14:48:18.744+00:00'A pea souper'<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">There has been thick fog in London for the last couple of days which has mirrored my mood some how not having much clarity. Lots of change is on the horizon and I have to be patient. I thought patience was one of my qualities but how wrong can I be, infact I am feeling inpatient and it doesn't work. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">On a lighter note as the nights draw in one has the urge to snuggle in....hanker down and as the world gets a bit smaller it's the little things that have the biggest impact and this simplifies life which for now is valuable.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The cosy studio, blankets on the bed and soup....the soup season.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">This month also brings the 16th<a href="http://www.leegreenopenstudios.com/" target="_blank"> Lee Green Open Studios</a> which is unbelievable, it feels like a celebration because if all goes to plan this will be the last here at Stable Cottage....the end of an era for me. <a href="http://www.leegreenopenstudios.com/sarah-gursoy-heuser.html" target="_blank">Sarah Gursoy-Heuser</a> is joining me again this year with her beautiful prints and other wares so it will be good fun and am really looking forward to it.......</span>Jo Oakleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09607007624508860826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390429616249873127.post-15101712145048404412015-08-20T10:52:00.000+01:002015-08-20T10:52:39.148+01:00A little corner of West Wales.........<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Have a look at <a href="http://www.coldatnight.co.uk/" target="_blank">www.coldatnight.co.uk</a> and I defy you not to want to visit in one way or another, I have been looking at their instagram feed for quite a while. Instagram enables you to get the flavour of a person or place which is totally different to the Face Book kind of way. Images and very few words leave much more scope for your own mind to wander and get an idea of a persons vision, passion.....thats if their ego isn't getting in the way!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Not a bit of it here and I chose my camp as there are two and a place to lay my head and cook with my man and my dog and this was it, home for the week....</span><br />
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<span id="goog_1643221730"></span>Jo Oakleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09607007624508860826noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390429616249873127.post-33595689742211853452015-07-14T17:10:00.002+01:002015-07-14T17:10:51.334+01:00Finding The Time...........<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">With this months delightful offerings of warm sunshine, <a href="http://www.coastmagazine.co.uk/" target="_blank">Coast </a>Magazine's great article and participation in <a href="http://se.royalacademy.org.uk/" target="_blank">RA Summer Exhibition</a> things have been busy, these things take time away from painting really. They also feed the energy thats needed to fuel the compulsion to make the paintings too.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Walking by the coast on a warm day in a delicate breeze enhance my senses and I seem to see the delicacies of the colour and shape of the landscape and what I find in it in a different way. Maybe because of the warmth things slow down and this allows the observation to become more detailed....I don't really know but I revel in it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The other distractions are the necessaries....what would be good would be a combination of PR,secretary,cleaner,yoga teacher and chef to come and work with me......</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Management of time is probably one of lives constant dilemmas and we probably all need to just count our blessings.........</span><br />
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Jo Oakleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09607007624508860826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390429616249873127.post-43854087517145407832015-05-22T12:18:00.000+01:002015-05-22T12:18:07.153+01:00It's been a while.........<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I have not posted for a while and I have missed it strangely, I think because I have been painting away for a show in 2016 my mind has been elsewhere. I had some great news yesterday that has certainly put a spring in my step and that is that I have two pieces this year hung In Royal Academy Summer Exhibition! I feel super excited and am so looking forward to seeing them there.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The process of selection has changed to a digital one in the last couple of years and there are a couple more hurdles to cross. I was selected but not hung last year which feels like a tease, being accepted or rejected by this particular institution runs deep.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I am a great fan of Norman Ackroyd and he was on the selection committee this year and I wanted to hang my little (5cmx5cm) so badly. So next week I am off to Varnishing Day....Yipeeeeee</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I am also being featured in Coast magazine in The August edition, an article about my past spending lots of time at my beach hut thinking and enjoying my surroundings. Looking forward to seeing that too</span><br />
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Jo Oakleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09607007624508860826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390429616249873127.post-41595128225418994912015-02-03T19:08:00.000+00:002015-02-03T19:08:36.158+00:00February musings.....<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It is now the strange month of Febuary....we are now in the thick of it with the sweet knowledge of spring being around the corner. I was showing at London Art Fair at the end of January with Jonathan Cooper and whilst visiting the fair I stumbled across this beautiful painting by Winifred Nicholson which has everything I needed at that moment and at every time I look at it. The warmth, the delicacy and the strength all at the same time.....wow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> I am in essence a printmaker that found painting so from time to time I hanker after print. Because of the the chemical process of etching I have not had my hands on a piece of copper for many years. That is until last week when some beautifully rocked mezzotint plates landed on my door mat.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The steps are tentative because I have never used this method but I rummaged around for my etching burnisher and scraper looking for the light in the beautiful velvet black.I am going to submit the outcome to The Summer Exhibition so we shall see.There are new canvas's ordered a solo show in the pipe line so much work to do so I better get on with it!</span><br />
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<br />Jo Oakleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09607007624508860826noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390429616249873127.post-25873421799721324062015-01-05T15:26:00.001+00:002015-01-14T15:01:05.490+00:00Babbling brooks and big big sea and back.........<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Christmas was a totally different deal this year, I dreamt of babbling brooks and big big sea and that is exactly what I got. We walked a lot and because of the big sea big sky and big weather things seemed to slot into place. Vince discovered the beach for the first time and was run ragged.....he loved it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">After such a refreshing interlude being back in the studio is a great pleasure, bring on the grey days of January because I am snug as a bug in a shed.</span><br />
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Jo Oakleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09607007624508860826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390429616249873127.post-33455400029489498952014-10-22T15:14:00.001+01:002014-10-22T15:14:43.594+01:00Hello Autumn and Hello Vince.......<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The weather has told us otherwise up until today, it has been so warm and the light so exquisite. The studio door has been wide open until last week which I am truly grateful for as I have missed the beach and thinking about it too much and attempting to conjure it up is a great mistake for me, it freezes my imagination.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The door being open has had another significance it has meant my new companion can run around...it is two years to the month that 'Sophie' my lovely dog died. It has taken up until now to be able to accept a new dog into the house. 'Vince' is a present from my partner for my significant birthday I celebrated last month. We are getting to know each other and he is a wonderful little character growing and changing daily.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I have a solo show next month so apart from Vince that has been my other preoccupation it starts on the 17th November and runs until 23rd December. The Beaux Arts Bath Gallery is a beautiful listed Georgian building with a very intimate feel. I am really looking forward to seeing it all hung especially the largest piece I have made... 'When sea meets sky'........</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">There is also the small matter of Lee Green Open Studios in the middle two weekends of November....more details to come. x</span>Jo Oakleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09607007624508860826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390429616249873127.post-78797704686529922852014-09-03T16:36:00.002+01:002014-09-03T16:36:40.444+01:00Looking back and moving forward<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I have had a good long break from the routine but have not stopped thinking about making my work I never switch off from the thoughts but its good to stop the physical action of making it. It has been a great summer and I have had no desire at all to leave these shores. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I have been invited to show in a beautiful gallery in Bath in November so have started the process of getting this show together. Thinking how I want this large body of work to look and what story I want to tell. I am now well and truly back to the studio with one distraction coming in the middle of this month....a big birthday. A chance to have a big party to match it and get together with my dear friends and celebrate!!!</span></div>
Jo Oakleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09607007624508860826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390429616249873127.post-17100117755495802952014-07-11T11:13:00.000+01:002014-07-11T11:14:26.987+01:00'The Process'<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Using social media has become a valuable tool to create an audience, this works on many levels and gives an opportunity for one to get some feedback on new work before it goes out into the real world.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It also allows friendships to develop which supports and encourages which when one works alone is a very special thing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Some days a few words of encouragement just make all the difference.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I am working at the moment on a large body of work for a solo show and I have started on this in the last couple of weeks and my mind is full of a story I would like to tell. The first painting is finished and I have for the first time taken pictures through the week of my process and the painting coming to life...........</span><br />
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Jo Oakleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09607007624508860826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390429616249873127.post-69990853947621210262014-06-10T10:07:00.001+01:002014-06-10T10:07:30.426+01:00My Cups and stuff…….<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">They arrived!! Cups, plates, jugs and a tea pot in blue and red colour way and I love them!!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I am just designing the label before I start the marketing. I have sold quite a few bits already to my lovely friends that are so enthusiastic about them. My little painting did not get hung in the Academy so it is back home with me but I have some plans for it and am going to take it to Bath. A beautiful gallery there have asked me to take a couple of bits to show in their summer show so it is a good excuse to go and explore Bath.I have not been there for many years and Beaux Arts is a Gallery that fills me with excitement to show in. It is a beautiful Georgian building that was two houses now knocked into one with a very elegant gallery space.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Having a coffee now using one of my cups as I write……Have a good week xx</span><br />
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<br />Jo Oakleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09607007624508860826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390429616249873127.post-84238385866871658132014-05-06T15:01:00.000+01:002014-05-06T15:01:52.510+01:00Happy DaysIt was a great week last week in more ways than one……don't you just love it when things that you have had in the pipe line for a while come together so nicely.<br />
Firstly I had an article about little old me published in Homes & Antiques magazine and it was beyond my expectations and looks really really good!<br />
Secondly I had my painting excepted in 'Summer Exhibition in the Royal Academy….I will find out if it gets hung on 22nd May so my fingers are crossed.<br />
Thirdly I went away to Whitstable for the weekend and the weather was great which meant we could sit in the sunshine…open up the beach hut…..eat outside……a little bit of heaven………..<br />
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Jo Oakleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09607007624508860826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390429616249873127.post-12347086200128978952014-03-21T12:08:00.001+00:002014-03-21T12:09:34.348+00:00Time to reflect……..<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">There is sometimes if your lucky time to reflect, I have been working through ideas slowly but surely but have given myself some time to think about the landscape I want to make for myself.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">My brother's illness…alcoholism and his time in rehab has had this unexpected effect on me. He is to me showing great courage in his honesty and it has made me think about the approach I have myself to work especially. Being so very busy all the time can be an avoidance of looking at the nitty gritty of oneself and the quality of the experience.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">As a result I am having more courage myself to develop ideas that I have sidelined because they are going to take me to new places and I think I have avoided putting myself there.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">So I have been accepted on 'Space Studios New Creative Marketing Programme' to help develop these ideas. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I have also been shortlisted for RA Summer Exhibition so my fingers are crossed on that one and there are other new connections that I will keep blogging about as they evolve!!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Happy Spring to one and all especially my brother who is bloody brave and I wish him all the strength and surrender he needs………</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span>Jo Oakleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09607007624508860826noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390429616249873127.post-16269966865006253972014-01-29T14:14:00.002+00:002014-01-29T14:16:11.885+00:00Out Of The Grey…….<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">My cards were launched this month at Top Drawer with Dry Red Press and I am thrilled with them. It is difficult to get the colours right in the printing process but these are really good. I have put them up for Sale in my new shop on the website. <a href="http://www.dryredpress.com/jo_oakley_cards.asp" target="_blank">Dry Red Press</a> have a look for yourself……</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I have also been painting for a commission which I was confident I knew what the client wanted but when I let her see the progress I realised the pitfalls of this process and that one cannot read minds.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I have now re started painting but the great thing is I feel really excited by the original painting and out of the grey of January I have this painting to look at myself and it has surprised me</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Spat out now and absolutely raring to go, I am setting up a shop on my web-site and slowly but surely I am going to show my wares…….</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Painting is coming and this weekend I went for a long sunshine filled walk through Greenwich park and along the river with my beau.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">We visited my childhood and walked in well trodden steps and it stirred up my imagination and I am keen to start drawing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">So the conclusion is I am going to put my head down now and make some work in all it's different forms and I am very happy to be doing so…..Happy January everybody.</span><br />
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Jo Oakleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09607007624508860826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390429616249873127.post-47189791240711940592013-11-18T14:15:00.002+00:002013-11-18T14:15:53.232+00:00Jonathan Cooper Park Walk Gallery Christmas Show!!!<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I am very excited to announce that I will be exhibiting in this wonderful gallery in London in December. I got the little brochure through the post this morning and it made me sooo excited, it is my first showing with them and Alice and Jonathan have filled me with enthusiasm and encouragement for which I am very grateful.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">You can see all the work on their online catalogue which if I was able I would post the link but I have not got that far in my computing skills!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Open Studio is finished now and Daisy and I had amazing support, we where quite overwhelmed by the number of visitors and I would like to thank each and everyone. I am now getting the house and studio back to working order because you know what they say…..'there is no rest for the wicked'!!!</span><br />
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Jo Oakleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09607007624508860826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390429616249873127.post-42683723503037434242013-10-26T13:11:00.002+01:002013-10-26T13:12:30.255+01:00Lee Green Open Studios 2013 & an Exhibition in Cambridge at Byard Art<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Daisy (my daughter) and I are again opening our home as part of Lee Green Open Studios. It is a time when the house gets a good spruce up and we get to show our wares. Its an opportunity for me to show other things that I have done. I am especially looking forward to showing some of my fabric designs and seeing what you think. I am also part of a lovely exhibition in Cambridge at Byard Art this month and part of November.............</span><br />
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Jo Oakleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09607007624508860826noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390429616249873127.post-69690998920910892022013-10-01T11:34:00.000+01:002013-10-01T11:42:01.573+01:00My paintings are in Stockholm and I wish I was!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I am hoping this one was chosen to go off to Stockholm for the Affordable Art Fair..I am not sure what the gallery decided to take but this week a clutch of my paintings will be visiting ....and hopefully repatriating. I think I have something wrong...I want to be in Stockholm this week!!!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I am however working on a show in December with my head still by the sea, I have to make eight paintings for their selection of six and I am establishing a new relationship with this gallery which is exciting and fills my stomach with butterflies....this is a crazy way to earn a living and I now truly believe I have elements of insanity.....there I've said it!!!!</span><br />
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Jo Oakleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09607007624508860826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390429616249873127.post-86055021627066774772013-09-11T14:39:00.000+01:002013-09-11T14:39:13.391+01:00Home Sweet Home<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I have been thinking today about working at home, technically my studio is not in the house so I do go out of the back door to work but it is so very close and at times difficult to separate the two. Work and home are so intertwined for me because of the domestic nature of my subject and also my maternal nature and although my offspring are by no means dependant my urge to gather my family together and feed them is still very strong.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I found myself today when deciding to come in and make a cuppa getting distracted by the debris in the kitchen and spending at least half an hour sorting it out.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I used to be able to leave the house stuff and get on with my work but now I just cannot do it...Why.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I need order to be able to have a clear mind to get out into that studio and sometimes it drives me crazy trying to keep this balance.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I think a busy Autumn has bought this to my attention and I have moments that I would like to go into my studio and not come out for hours and have my meals and refreshments delivered with the care and love I give every offering to my loved ones....Angry...me??</span><br />
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Jo Oakleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09607007624508860826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390429616249873127.post-30637687119294316672013-08-22T11:37:00.001+01:002013-08-22T11:37:31.687+01:00Thank You my friend<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Today I want to mention my friend Jo and publicly thank her for her endless support for over twenty years!!!. She has bought work from me from the very beginning and this kind of support is so valuable to me not only from a financial point of view but the belief she has in me. It is not too often you find these friendships in life. For nearly two years now we have managed to encourage each other to get up on Blackheath and run! whatever the weather we do it and it has now become an integral part of our lives...the walk,the talk and run keep both of us healthy and focused.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Jo Will probably not see this unless I show her but if you come across it thank you girl!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I took a few took a few snaps this morning at her house after our very soggy run this morning...I made the mosaic in the kitchen too...</span><br />
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Jo Oakleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09607007624508860826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390429616249873127.post-44362664148517176992013-07-09T12:12:00.000+01:002013-07-09T15:50:51.340+01:00It's all in a name.......<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I have been dreaming lately about my maiden name and becoming Jo Johnson again. I have been unmarried for a while now but because of my work have kept my married name without really giving it that much thought because I married young took my husbands name and had Oakley children and became an Oakley artist.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">But now I want to reclaim my name, why.........Children have grown into adults and ex husband is re-marrying.......maybe?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I am getting myself ready for Urban Art in Brixton (details in last post) and whilst signing some of my screen prints I decided to start the process and signed JOJ and it felt strangely good so I will start talking to galleries about this. There must be other women out there who know what I am talking about and I would love to hear from you.........</span><br />
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