About Me

Dawnblatherwick Artist, Yorkshire Artist Original Art.

Oil, pen and ink. Portrait Landscape and quirky illustrations

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I make no excuses for my “pretty” artworks as most of my ideas come to me in dreams, sometimes asleep sometimes awake, which begs the questions how do I perceive life? I am a very positive thinking person, (yes one of those happy soles) and perhaps this is why my art could be described as pretty?  Even difficult subjects like miscarriage are pleasing to the eye, I guess I always try to please?

 My work is sometimes complex in its narrative and sometimes I have no idea why I paint what I have painted, only to find the answer sneak up on me in a dream.

I always feel that we have all been given the ability to make each other’s life whole. I have a great love of music of all genres but I do not play an instrument or sing (only in the bath), but I submerge myself in music and it fills my life and things resonates, I empathize, I sympathize, I connect.

This is how I see my role in life, Art is a way for me to communicate how I see the world how my stories, my life experiences are explained.

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Achievements

I seem to have done quite a lot in a small space of time:

2022 – April, Became a full time Artist

             Launched my new series, Turn from nature

             Started to give Art demonstrations

2021 - Appeared in the local newspaper

             Appeared on Sky’s Landscape Artist of the year, I came down to the last 3 in my heat

             Took part in Wakefield Art walk

             Work exhibiting in Art Original Gallery Ridings Centre Wakefield

             Work exhibited in Pomfret Gallery Pontefract

             Work exhibited at The Gate Gallery Doncaster

             Exhibited at Art in the Pen Skipton

             Volunteered at Queens Mill Castleford (gave free art classes to the elderly)

​2020 - Facilitated workshops at the Queens Mill Castleford

            Selected to exhibit at Art & York as a raw talent Artist

            Selected to exhibit at Art in the Pen Skipton

            Filmed my heat as a competitor on Sky’s Landscape Artist of the Year

            Created an NHS Hero portrait

            Launched my Dark Curiosity Illustrations

2019 - Exhibited Art in the Barn, Batley

            Exhibited Art in the Pen Skipton

            Appeared on the One show

2018 - Appeared on TV as a wild card for Sky’s  

            Landscape Artist of the year