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

Early Morning Rain - Timble Forest

Pine Woods - Early Light

Bolton Priory

Winter Sunrise - Staveley

Harnessing the Storm

Home Farm, Farnley - from the fields

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Early Morning Rain - Timble Forest

Pine Woods - Early Light

Bolton Priory

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

The Strid, Autumn

Old Barn, Arthington

Harnessing The Storm

Red gate, Timble

Farnley Fields, Otley

The Shooting Lodge

The Quay, Blakeney

The Iron Bridge

Northumbrian Dunes

Goredale In Flood

The Cairn, Denton Moor

East Lagoon, Staveley

Conifers at Timble - Morning

Dob Park Bridge

Mist on Denton Moor I

Mist Clearing - Denton Moor

Gallows Hill - Otley

Woodland Track - Timble Forest

Whitby Harbour

Washburn Valley, Winter

Trollers Ghyll

Timble -Early Morning

The Sluice Gate

The Signpost, Ilkley Moor

The Old Track

The Old Cattle Market, Otley - Winter

The Marsh

The Conifer Forest

The Beech - Autumn

Storm Clouds Over Denton Moor

Snow in the Washburn Valley

Rombald's Moor

Otley Weir, Autumn

Otley Chevin - Winter

Nature Study 2 - Ferns and Ash

Mist on Denton Moor II

Lower Dearncomb, Denton Moor

Lippersley Ridge from the North

Heather Burning - Beamsley Beacon

Gawk Hall in the Mist

Gawk Hall Gate from the East

From Littondale

Forest Pool, Timble

Evening Snow, Timble

Emley Moor, Winter

East Pier, Whitby

Early Spring, Staveley

Dunstanburgh Castle in the Mist

Conifers at Timble - Morning

Cam Pasture, Upper Wharfedale

Byland Abbey

Almscliffe

Art in the Pen, Skipton

Exhibition at Ilkley Art Shop, Ilkley

100×100 Online exhibition

Interview

Jonathan Smith's art

Early Morning Rain - Timble Forest

Pine Woods - Early Light