Jonathan Smith

I am a self-taught oil painter, specialising in landscapes, especially those of northern England.

Using colour and tone, I try, through the medium of paint, to convey my emotions as I view a landscape that I find beautiful, or dramatic, or imposing. I am never trying to portray a certain object in all its clarity but rather I want to capture the objects as they sit in the landscape by conveying the envelope of light in which they sit. By doing this I can fulfil my aim of allowing the viewer to experience the feelings that inspired me when I was stood in front of the scene.

I use professional quality artists paint as these have the highest pigment load and can provide truer colours. My work is developed in my studio in Otley, using a limited palette, where I use photographs and sketches made at the time to help me capture the form of the landscape. However, once the form and structure is established, I tend to turn away from source material and use the technique of ‘memory painting’ as espoused by painters such as John Carlson. When I am sketching of photographing the scene I intend to paint, I memorise the scene and my feelings – this allows me to remove unnecessary detail and aim for the over-arching motif that attracted me to the scene in the first place,

Some images about me

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"Using tone and colour I aim to convey my response to the natural world"

My website http://www.jwdsmithart.co.uk

Telephone 07796844537

Connection to Yorkshire

I live in Otley

Jonathan Smith

Jonathan Smith

Some images about me

Jonathan Smith's art

Barden Tower

Still Winter's Morning

Hanging Wood Lane. Thruscross

Sea Spray at Saltburn

Napes Hill - Leathley

Country Lane at East Keswick

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Barden Tower

Still Winter's Morning

Hanging Wood Lane. Thruscross

Sea Spray at Saltburn

Napes Hill - Leathley

Country Lane at East Keswick

Sunrise on Thruscross Moor

The Devil's Arrows

Wheatfields at Hambleton

Fields at Hambleton

Lindisfarne - First Light

Byland Abbey at Sunset

Stag Rocks from Bamburgh Castle

The Boggle Holes - Runswick Bay

Whitby Abbey from Sandsend

Ripon Minster from Studley

Derwentwater

Runswick bay

Beech Trees at Thruscross

Beech Tree by the River Wharfe

Saltburn Beach - Winter

Sunrise at Thruscross Reservoir

Fountains Abbey

Bamburgh Castle from the Dunes

Almscliffe Crag from the East

The Cow and Calf - Ilkley Moor

A Woodland Clearing

Summer Track

River Wharfe in Summer

Pockstones Moor

A Quiet Evening

Frosty Morning

Covey Hall Farm

Farnley Park - Early Autumn

Timble Ings - Sunrise

Dunstanburgh Castle

The Sandbeds, Otley

Saltburn - Huntcliffe From Marske

Saltburn - Towards Huntcliffe

Denton Moor

Misty Morning at Otley Weir

Winter Landscape, Staveley

Runswick bay

The Dying Ash

The Clearing

Spring Light

Misty Morning at Knotford

Sunrise - Winter

Evening Light at Marske

Poplar in Winter

Long Dike, Timble

Malham Cove - Spring

Harvest - East Park at Farnley

Last Light on Denton Moor

Farnley - High Summer

Summer Storm - Bamburgh

Early Morning Rain - Timble Forest

Winter Sunrise - Staveley

Harnessing the Storm

Home Farm, Farnley - from the fields

Early Spring morning, Timble

Arthington Viaduct from the Wharfe

Dune Study, Northumberland

Respite - Storm Eunice from Snowden Crags

Red gate, Timble

Farnley Fields, Otley

The Shooting Lodge

The Iron Bridge

Northumbrian Dunes