John Freeman is well known for his paintings of the
North Yorkshire landscape, and in recent years, working almost
exclusively in water colours, has established a reputation for
his exciting snow scenes of the area creating a combination of
clarity and warmth not often found in this type of subject.
A selection of his work is now in print and it is proposed
to add regularly to this collection of over 100 subjects in both
open and limited editions. John's recently extended studio, located
in the heart of Whitby's East Side, is light and spacious and
shows over 160 of his works.
The Artist's Studio
His range of subjects also include his highly collectable
Nocturne paintings, studies of H.M. Endeavour and a host of local
places of interest from the very popular Goathland to remote moorland
farms.
"I find the immediacy of watercolour exciting and
stimulating. It enables me to combine my love of detail with
broad areas where pigment, paper, and water create their own
qualities. Since 1981, when my love affair with watercolours
took hold, I have painted exclusively in that medium. But although
subjects may vary, my real love has always been the more remote
rural aspects of a given area. The un-renovated, the basic,
and the dilapidated buildings are those which quicken the eye
and the hand."
"The legacy of my earlier oil painting days has had
considerable bearing on the way my painting has developed, giving
a different feel to my watercolours, and a strength not normally
associated with the medium."
