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Welcome to my gallery of British landscape paintings . I have been painting the landscape since the late 1980s having trained in fine art at Loughborough College of Art. It is my intention to render in paint a faithful and detailed depiction of nature. By doing this I believe I can capture the outdoor experience and contain it upon a canvas. I am inspired by wild unspoiled places, there is an enlightened state of mind to be found in their unbroken silence and beauty. Painting the landscape becomes a way of evoking this state when it is not possible to experience it directly. In summary, these are the paintings I paint for my own walls.

JC nov 2007

Using the menu on the left you can see most of the pictures I have created over the last 20 years. Some are available for sale, others are on public exhibition. Scroll down for news updates

"Our collection has an impressive range of art from the pop artist Peter Blake to the enchanting landscapes of the British Isles by John Cheall."

Guy Noble, Curator, Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge

latest news January 2012

The Look Gallery which has supported me for many years has a new website. You can see my latest paintings up-close there. Please visit if you are in North Yorkshire.

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My 1990 painting 'Shower, Loughborough' and four others are included in the new BBC/yourpaintings project

I am re-acquainting myself with painting in acrylic on paper and finding it to be very enjoyable. Drying times are so rapid that you can finish a painting in a single sitting, you can overlay wash after wash and correct and edit all you want without ruining the working surface. I am using mainly Liquitex paints and as you can see by the painting to the right here the hues and contrasts compare very well with the oils beneath. Only in brushmarks and texture are the acrylics lacking as they shrink upon drying and so tauten the surface, erasing the marks of application. However my impasto experiments with some of the new 'heavy-body' acrylics are ongoing. For example laying down highlights of thick white upon the blank paper so they shine through later washes is giving big contrasts and pleasing textures. I shall post the new works in the coming weeks.

new paintings at the Look Gallery

20 Castlegate, Helmsley, North Yorks. tel. 01439 770545

a new commissioned picture

'The Garden of Stonesy Delight'

oil on canvas 16x40"

in which I attempt to mash-up Bosch's original with images inspired by The Rolling Stones. There are 66 references and I offer a free print for any person who can spot them all.

My F1 paintings are featured on YallaF1.com

"we salute John’s genius"

Two landscapes for sale, both oil on canvas 36"x24". £850 each. contact me if you are interested

A new commission. 'Boys on the shore', Tyninghame, Scotland. Oil, 3'x 2'

'It is exactly what I was after from the commission and something that I will enjoy admiring for many years to come. I showed it to my two sons as soon as I landed up at home and my youngest, Oliver immediately recognised it was him'.

M. Allsop, Dunbar

nov 2008

John Cheall to be included in the Nottinghamshire edition of the public catalogue foundation

Oct 2008

Do I 'get' Rothko? find out on my blog

I have been occupied lately with a new portrait. Corporal Findlay is a veteran of the Normandy landings, Operation Bluecoat, whom I have had the privelege to meet a few times over the course of various commissions. He was a crew member of a Churchill tank and took a direct hit during an inland battle following D-Day. He managed to escape the wreckage but his companions were not so fortunate.

Skye paintings here

www.landscape-paintings-england.co.uk

have posted a painting on artquid

April 2007

Some sad news. My uncle John Carter, the well known Yorkshire landscape painter died yesterday, april 16th, after losing his battle with cancer. He was perhaps my biggest artistic infuence, without his example I would not have been able to pursue my own career. A man of boundless enthusiasm and knowledge he was dedicated to his art and to the northern landscape. Through constant exposure to his work which hung in my family home I was able to see how formal arrangements of light, sky, fields and rock could evoke a real emotional response. This is what made his art universal rather then local, it was not concerned with famous landmarks but rather the atmosphere of a location, a bleak hilltop, isolated farm or brooding cloudscape.

John was born in Skelton-in-Cleveland, educated at Guisborough grammar school and trained at Middlesbrough and Edinburgh Colleges of Art. He did national service in the RAF then trained as an art teacher at Durham University in 1955. He was head of art at Eston Grammar school until 1973, visiting lecturer at Middlesbrough College of art until 1976 and then Head of Art and Design at South Park sixth form college until retirement in 1990. Then a full time painter, printmaker and stained glass designer he was secretary of the Fylingdales Group of Artists and active member of the Printmakers council. In 1993 he was elected to the board of directors of Cleveland Arts.

Here is an extract from his own introduction to his Magnetic North exhibition at Billingham art gallery 1995.

See my work at the Saatchi online collection

I have been giving private oil painting tuition this last couple of years and have room for a few more pupils. If you are interested and live within radius of Nottingham contact me for rates.

Please visit the site of my old friend Paul Foxton for an eloquent account of his return to painting.

some formula 1 paintings.

New paintings

The Major Oak, Edwinstowe, Sherwood Forest

Commission

A selection of older paintings has been scanned for the first time. See them here.

I have a number of postcards of 'Burnt car' - send an SAE.

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