Fabulous free Yorkshire Wolds Virtual Exhibition - four more exhibitions for you to see

CLICK TO ENTER THE VIRTUAL EXHIBITION.

Four more exhibitions can be opened from this one

1 Beverley Minster sketches

2 Howardian Hills painting peregrinations

3 Kipling Cotes Derby

4 Exhibition of prints

When you enter the virtual space you will see some icons on the left hand side. By clicking the PLUS(+) icon you are taken to four more exhibitions as mentioned above. I have many more paintings of the Yorkshire Wolds and these can be found by searching my blog site.   

All my paintings have been completed at the various locations. Beverley Minster sketches was an experiment. I used a thick nib permanent marker pen and sketched directly onto 12x10” canvas panels. I then used acrylic to add colour, this was done back at the studio. The Howardian Hills feature a small collection of paintings of an area south of Malton. The Kipling Cotes Derby, Englands oldest horse race, exhibition comprises paintings of the course and area around. My prints exhibition is an ideal place to find a print, perhaps a present for someone.

Of course at my ONLINE STORE there is much more to see, free animations, instructional videos and more. I especially want to flag my 2026 Calendar which features my paintings. Also, my art books,

1 Plein air painter ( a how to make a pochade box to create paintings, contains examples. Video here

2 Sketchbook of pen and ink washes of Yorkshire views go here to see video of this book

3 The LOW WOLDS - rare proof copy, a SUMPTIOUS book fully illustrated. Video here

2026 calendar - now available go HERE to order

This is a wall hanging calendar comprising original paintings by John Geekie. Delivered via Royal Mail to your door.

 

Magical, mysterious Swinemoor and Beverley’s main churches.

I love this view of BEVERLEY across Swinemoor pasture. Swinemoor is inevitably boggy. It is low lying, in fact lower at times than the River Hull, which flows by behind where I stood when painting this view. The deep ruts of a tractor can be seen disappearing, horses, a huge feature of Swinemoor can be seen grazing but most of all, I like the idea of including the churches. The main churches, can be seen from the Westwood, at the other side of BEVERLEY. I have seen them many times over the years. Painting this view however, made me look again. The churches of course were in a different order. It is unusual to see St. Nicholas tower to the left of the Minster with Saint Mary’s tower to the right. This was a large painting and took a bit of effort to do. I had to carry a large French easel to the venue and set up in such a way that I could combat the wind which caught the canvas. The original painting has now been sold, but here is a print of it.
 Available from my online store.

2026 calendar - now available go HERE to order

This is a wall hanging calendar comprising original paintings by John Geekie. Delivered via Royal Mail to your door.

Horsedale near Huggate, Yorkshire Wolds.

 

Horse Dale from near Huggate.

At night looking over this view huge ships in the North Sea have been seen lit up as if blocks of flats.Available from my online store

ALSO

2026 calendar - now available go HERE to order

This is a wall hanging calendar comprising original paintings by John Geekie. Delivered via Royal Mail to your door.

St. Mary’s Church, from Lairgate, Beverley.

Sometimes when sketching a scene a sort of magic happens. Here is a sketch of Lairgate, Beverley looking towards the tower of a distant St.Mary’s Church. It started as just another sketch but when I added colour it transformed into much more. I started by noticing the large old tree and thinking that I should record it before it disappeared. I like the inclusion of the ‘bus stop, this view will be so familiar to those catching a ‘bus. It is printed onto thick card with a wonderful glossy finish and looks superb in a frame.

Available at my online store. Includes p+p

Also,

2026 calendar - now available go HERE to order

This is a wall hanging calendar comprising original paintings by John Geekie. Delivered via Royal Mail to your door.

Burton Bushes, Beverley, a mounted framed print.

 Available here

Print taken from my 2015 exhibition which featured a Year in Burton Bushes.

I spent a year visiting the ancient woodland of Burton Bushes in Beverley, painting en plein air. My aim was to create a collection of paintings which described the year in terms of seasonally relevant plants. This picture shows an old oak, a path passes it. Like a lot of woodland paths this one is indistinct to most people. My constant visits made me familiar with them and here I was struck by a fluorescent green on a damp part of the path. The green was unusually bright, seemingly illuminated. It was both strange and fascinating.

Art book - how to paint plein air landscapes.

Here is an artists book written as a guide to painting outside, that is, plein air. IT explains how I work but it is much more, it is a record of the LOW WOLDS. This is available from my online store below. My aims as an artist is to help educational establishments and others whom I feel would benefit from my work. I have donated many books to school libraries where children may find them useful. If you are a teacher, drop me a line and if possible, I will send the school a free copy whilst stocks last.

Collectors ART book.

A sumptuous art book explaining how I work, full of illustrations.

 This limited first edition is already in the process of revision.

 This book will be a significant addition to any artists library.

  ISBN 978-1-7395713-1-3

Available here

Beverley Churches from the Hurn original painting for sale.

This is an old picture, an old painting made in approximately 2015. I love the view as it captures the three main churches of the Minster, St. Mary’s and St. Nicholas. I remember walking over the racecourse  to the pond with my French easel. The weather was bitterly cold, the wind cutting through my warm clothing. As I painted my fingers struggled to cope, when I finished I could hardly dismantle the French easel. So this painting always reminds me of that time.  In another way it is an interesting painting inasmuch as it records the incongruous block of a white building, the old Beverley Arms hotel accommodation block. This has now gone after extensive renovations were carried out.

It is now for sale, further details on my online shop here.

Oil on stretched canvas.

Yorkshire Landscape art book.

Great art book for lovers of Yorkshire 

Video of the complete book HERE 

Go here to get a copy sent to you.

Request - horse painting project.

Forgive this quick doodle, it is not accurate I know. I Have an idea for a winter painting project, it might go on into the spring and summer. I would like to paint horses, ponies and wonder if people can assist me by letting me visit their stables. This is an academic painting exercise which I would like to try. I would be working in oil at the venue. That is, not using photographs. I might do sketches to assist with the painting if required. 

Can you help.?

I will be working on a variety of canvas sizes., Initially 12 x 10 and 14 x 10“ but with a possibility of much larger. This may lead to some specific horse portraits. I recall Lucian Freud painted the rear quarter of a horse, he made several trips to get it right which resulted in him getting a little ill. The painting  he produced  was a little unusual in as much as the horses head couldn’t be seen. I mentioned this because I would like to produce a body of work which includes horses from many angles not necessarily the obvious.

2026 JOHN GEEKIE ART calendar - large A3 wall hanging.

 2026 calendar - now available go HERE to order

This is a wall hanging calendar comprising original paintings by John Geekie. Delivered via Royal Mail to your door.

iPad Prints not available at Sotherby’s

 I have just read in The Guardian about Sotheby’s selling some of David Hockney’s iPad prints. I admire David very much and remember having had a long talk with him when he was here in East Yorkshire. We talked of art of course and plein air painting, photography and shadows. I see that David’s prints are expected to reach between £80,000 - £180,000. Here is an opportunity to buy one or more of my iPad paintings, for a lot less!

South Dalton village, an A3 sized print available here.

A view across fields from near Farberry Farm, with Warter church spire and partridge. Available here.

Mindfulness animation - watch a garden grow

 

I have created a wonderful video of sketching a garden. It takes you from winter to summer with seasonal planting coming and going. The animation is set to music and provides a wonderful diversion from everyday concerns. IMMERSE yourself in this animation which plays for approx 14 minutes. Sit, relax and watch, maybe have something to drink. Clicking the picture will take you to my online store where for not much more than the price of a coffee you can get full access to the animation and play it as many times as you like. By purchasing the animation a link will be sent for you to get access. This is on YouTube and you must be able to access YouTube videos to see it

Sledmere House car park

 The car park at Sledmere House is within a magnificent trees belt. Always uplifting on arrival the arboreal guardians ever alert. VIDEO of this sketch here.

A conunbrum? Staithes Group artist Owen Bowen

As an artist I love the work of the STAITHES GROUP of artists. Recently, I have acquired Owen Bowen’s  old desk. Owen was contemporary with Laura Knight both of whom were members of the Staines Group. It was a wonderful surprise to find various items inside. Here are three watercolour palettes, including Windsor and Newton paints. I am tempted to clean them up but hesitate as I feel it might be a sort of sacrilege. The paint marks have been made by Owen and have a sort of integrity and history which I ask reluctant to remove. What do you think?

 

Waiting for news.

I am sitting on a bench, George in the shade at my feet. I am waiting to hear news about an appointment and how it is going. This is not for me. So as I worked, I sketch out this view of nothingness really. People walk by, as I sketch a bus pulls up and shadows lace the ground. The appointment is finished and the journey home begins. 

A4 Fabriano landscape sketchbook, 0.8nib, W+N watercolour.

Beverley Open Exhibition 2025

I am delighted to say, I have had an animation, a digital animation drawing accepted for this year. The animation shows trees at a particular junction near Warter starting in winter then into spring, then into early summer full of bright greens, and finally as above in late summer. The video is approximately 10 minutes long and can be seen from Saturday the 27th of September. It is a meditation and a celebration of nature particularly of trees. It is an unassuming group of trees not far from those made famous by David Hockney ( Bigger trees at Warter) which are about a mile away at Dalton Gates. I have painted these trees many times at the venue, as small pochade box paintings to large multi canvas paintings using French easels.

Sneak view of farm buildings at South Dalton.

 

Often when walking past here with my dog I see this intriguing collection of buildings hidden along a side lane. Sometimes cattle can be seen at the end of the lane. I love the arrangement particularly a distressed doorway which has faded lettering. I assumed the whole complex with the faded paint was old. In fact, I was told by SF that it was a film set and that the film company had had the paint applied. Not sure what the film was about so if anyone knows please leave a comment. This detail is from an unfinished sketch.

Popped back to finish off.

2026 calendar - now available go HERE to order

By the edge of Humber, I sit..

 I needed to visit Hessle and walked along the foreshore to the Humber Bridge. I was transfixed when I saw a curlew. It was walking on the soft exposed mud of a dyke draining into the Humber. The tide was very low. I found it difficult to believe at all the exposed mud flats in the main body of water, the Humber itself. On my way back I stopped and sat on an old concrete plinth. The top of it was uneven and it contained clear, settled water. I noticed silt had settled in these small pools. A thought hit me, I could try a quick sketch using a pen with brown ink. Then I could stir up the silt and use it as paint. So, most of this sketch has been produced using silty water. Towards the end, still using the silt laden water I used a cheap watercolour palette to add the slightest suggestion of colour, in the sky and the far river bank. With the tide turning I quickly added the Humber Bridge pylon with reflection. I also added a channel marker buoy ship? 

2026 calendar - now available go HERE to order

Mindfulness - FREE VIDEO to ease your stress with this free video

Mindfulness and inner peace

Join with me on a retrospective journey - click the above link, then allow nearly 30 minutes of your time to reflect, refresh and reset.

 Instructions.

1    Make a drink

2    Watch video

3    Repeat if required.

Go here..

2026 calendar - now available go HERE to order

2026 calendar comprising of original paintings from last year

 2026 calendar - now available go HERE to order

Beverley Minster prints and a special book.

  

 I love this print. It shows Beverley Minster across an open field, Hallgate, often used in the summer to graze cattle. A wonderful bucolic scene reminding us of a time past when the Minster was more closely linked to the farming community reinforcing its Market Town associations. This is a pen and ink sketch made at the site, I stood with an A3 piece of Bristol card, very smooth and ideal for pen and ink. Later, I added a watercolour wash. I remember the yellow van passing and quickly added it. Printed on A3 paper which will fit a standard A3 frame or, it looks good in a larger A2 frame with a suitable mount.

Available here

Also, this beautiful print made from a special watercolour painting.

Available here

Video preview 

A sumptuous art book explaining how I work, full of illustrations. 

This limited first edition is already in the process of revision. 

This book will be a significant addition to any artists library.  ISBN 978-1-7395713-1-3

Available here

Art books by John Geekie

Yorkshire Wolds Sketchbook

 Artist's sketchbook featuring the Yorkshire Wolds, by John Geekie.

I have been painting and sketching landscapes for many 

years and have been asked about publishing some of my sketches.

 Here is a simple book, printed to represent a sketchbook with over seventy pages of double page spreads. 

It is a high quality book with laminated cover and shrink wrapped  thus ensuring pristine quality.

 I have left my shorthand colour notes on most of the sketches which will be of interest

 to plein air artists, landscape artists in particular. 

It also will interest Wolds Way walkers who will recognize some of the places. 

These sketches are mainly from a concertina sketchbook, the views being four pages wide. 

They have been proportionally reduced to fit the A5 landscape format. Full colour throughout. 

 

I am working on a more comprehensive book which will feature original paintings in oil 

and those completed using an ipad. Look out for it. 

This book of sketches has a limited edition of 200 which includes free copies for 

local school libraries as well as some complimentary copies for people met when at the various sites. 

 

Available from my online shop. 

Also, you can see a very short video of the book, see below, 

Short video here. 

Front cover

 

 

 

Front cover showing spine.

  

Sample of a double page spread.

 

How to make you own open air artists PAINT BOX.

          Plein Air Painter, tips and advice.

I have had two international students visit me whom I took out for one to one painting supervision. 

Their aim being to produce a painting of a landscape.

 They both succeeded and when they left I gave them each a copy of my book, PLEIN AIR PAINTER. 

This was written with the prime intention of giving instructions about making your own paint box easel known 

as a pochade box. I have devised a fail proof, tested method of construction and detailed assembly 

notes in the book. 

However, I have had feedback about how helpful the tips and advice are as well.

 So, if you have your own pochade box and need to know about canvas preparation,

 mixing paint, checking layout etc you will find this book helpful.

Available from my online store.

ISBN978-1-7395713-0-6

Collectors art book of Beverley and the Low Wolds.

Collectors ART book.

A sumptuous art book explaining how I work, full of illustrations.

 This limited first edition is already in the process of revision.

 This book will be a significant addition to any artists library.

  ISBN 978-1-7395713-1-3

Available here