john stoa
My interest in art was established in childhood, as I saw a need to colour in
any black and white pictures in my childrens story books, then many years later
the magic of selling original paintings started when I got my first red dot at
Darlington Art Society Annual Exhibition in 1980. I am largely self taught but
constantly experiments with colour and light, tone and composition. I paint
subjects from town to country, floral to figurative, snow scenes, summer
landscapes, boats, Scottish castles, still life and pets. Although I had had a
long career in horticulture taking me all over the United Kingdom I became a
full time artist in 1992, just as the Government began to wind up the Scottish
New Towns (I was in Livingston) and redundancy loomed. I have been fairly
prolific and now (up to 2020) painted over 1800 paintings. All my paintings are
numbered and have dates and titles on the back of the frame as well as on the
artwork. I have published several limited edition prints, and often put on an
exhibition of recent paintings in my Original Art studio in Dundee.
