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Inspiration from Artists Week 68 : Featuring Artists Joe Ryder and Sally Ward.
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Welcome to this weeks thread , the featuring Artists are :Joe Radar and Sally Ward. I will introduce Joe Ryder this evening and on Wednesday Jenny will introduce us to the artwork of Sally Ward.
I hope you all have a good week and enjoy the artwork, I won’t be participating for the next two day as I’m having surgery on my hand tomorrow morning and need too recover on Tuesday .
Joe Ryder born 1960, Artist, farmer and designer living on Ballingkillow Mountsin Co Donegal , Ireland.
Joe’s ideas for paintings come from observing the local surroundings and listening to local characters. He enjoys painting traditional country topics and scenes especially ones that are fast becoming history and forgotten.
Living on a farm surrounded by hills, lakes and forestry he has no shortage of inspiration. Joe studied art and applied design at Cleveland College of Art and Design in 1979, he worked in England before returning to Ireland in 2004 he started painting in 2012.
Information gathers from New Irish Art .
I hope you enjoy his artwork and the selection I have made .
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Thanks Jenny and Michael , the surgery went off well just waiting for the soreness, swelling and the bandages to come off then hopefully it’s a functioning hand again . As to Joe’s painting they are new to me I only discovered his work a few months ago and haven’t really studied them in any depth , I do like what I’ve seen so far and when I can concentrate and hold mt pad better I will have a closer look.
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The painting that really appeals to me in this selection is the third one down - the sheds, and old Bedford (?) van. I like the colour, the lead-in, and frankly I prefer the absence of humans .... that's not because I'm anti-social, but because they have to be extremely well-done if they're not to appear just stuck on to a picture. The horse-shoeing, and sheep-shearing, are also good - not least because the painter is a man very familiar with those subjects.
But my real purpose in posting on this thread was to echo everyone else in wishing Dixie well - it's not exactly a painless procedure he's undergone, and of course it's very important to him that the operation should be a complete success: let's hope it gives him back the full use of his hand and makes life a lot easier than it has been. I've known several people who have had this operation, and all have made excellent recoveries - so here's hoping for the best result for him.
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Thank you all for you very kind wishes , it’s cheered up what was has been be honest a crap day to put it very politely.
I was warned it would be extremely uncomfortable for about a week or so and they are wrong , it’s agony to be honest but it’s worth that to get a working hand . I’m hoping that they added a bit of artistic magic it’s the only way I’m getting any better at painting fortunately it the left hand that the main problem and I could be a few more years before the right is bad enough .
I tried painting today but unfortunately the concentration was not there but I definitely will be having another go tomorrow.
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Best wishes for a good recovery Dixie, and at least the op is now behind you and hopefully you’ll soon be back at the drawing board.
One day at a time Lad!
Meanwhile, I hadn’t heard of joe Ryder but have said before I do like artists who use everyday subject matter around them ,and that’s mainly what he has done in your selection. I sometimes think that’s a lesson to all of us, to notice the detail of our surroundings and use it.
As you say he is recording history and a way of life which like most things will pass.
My favourite is the pub!
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Sally Ward, a self-taught artist from Kingston, has happy memories of visiting art galleries with her mother. She passed her GCSE in art aged 12 and A-Level art aged 16, but didn’t pick up a paintbrush for a large part of her adult life. After studying music at Cambridge University, where she stayed on to undertake an M.Phil in Musicology, her life became increasingly busy as she balanced raising a family with working part time as a civil servant.
During the time she did find to paint she worked in watercolour, later moving on to oils which she found more exciting as it allowed her to make changes and evolve the work as she went along.
She made it to the final three in the Sky Portrait Artist of the Year in 2020. It was watching this series that inspired her to use oils. She is now a professional artist specialising in portraits and the figure. She has also recently written a series of articles on portrait painting for The Artist magazine.
While in demand for private commissions, she has developed a body of her own work focusing on portraits of family, friends and herself. She enjoys the emotional intimacy of these works, aiming to create a sensitive and honest portrayal of her subject, often using a limited palette and strong light source to convey the solidity, form and presence of her sitter. She works mainly in oils and charcoal.
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by Jenny Harris