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 - ease your stress with this free video

Join with me on a retrospective journey.

 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

Step inside this free virtual exhibition

 Go here to enter the FREE exhibition of Beverley Minster sketches.

Mindfulness, meditation and a cup of coffee

 These are stills from a YouTube video ( account needed) which shows trees emerging from winter to high summer. It is presented as a meditation and I hope you enjoy it. Make a drink, give yourself time and watch it through. Our connection with trees is fundamental. Here, you will be transported through time as you watch the scenes change. 

Available here.

Make a friend for life

 These can easily be made - you will need scissors and a glue stick. The dog can be enhanced by adding colour, dots, patterns,differently coloured paper etc. Once made they can live on a windowsill, perhaps in a kennel which could be made.

ON SALE FOR A SHORT TIME 

Available here 

Watching a wood grow, iPad painting

 

2026 Calendar now available from my online store

 

2026 calendar - now available

Great calendar, go here to order

For you a short animation, plus calendar 2026

 Go to FULL screen for best experience.

Hit the calendar to see it in my online store.

2026 calendar - now available

Great calendar, go here to order.

 

Kiplingcotes Derby - Oldest Horse Race in England FREE Virtual Exhibition

 I love the fact that a special horse race takes place once a year which runs over the LOW WOLDS from near South Dalton towards Loaningdale. It is an ancient race which will cease to be run if it misses any one year. The staggering fact is that this race started in 1519. In years of extreme weather and during war years the course has been covered by various means including walking. It is run on the third Thursday in March.

The exhibition contains paintings on and around the course area. Many of the views of the area can also be seen in my book BEVERLEY and the low worlds ( click to go to my online store)

Exhibition here

Free VIRTUAL EXHIBITION of original plein air paintings.

 Virtual Exhibition - Howardian Hills

Click the link to enter the virtual exhibition.

Leisure Painter, October issue.

Fascinating issue full of great articles, very inspiring with an  excellent  marketplace (:o)

All books anvailable from my online shop.

Calendar 2026 - John Geekie Art

 

Another A3 calendar for the discerning. Full of original oil paintings, one per month. Paintings are from the previous year and have nor been published before. Many people buy these calendars to cut out and frame the paintings which are all approximately A4 landscape orientation. I am super excited to offer this high quality calendar which comprises 13 sheets on good quality paper, designed to be wall hanging.

Short video and ONLINE store link to come.

Contact me to pre-order as I have reduced the print run to 100. I will reserve copies on a first contact basis. The cost is held at £15. Invoiced only when calendar posted or collected.

In the meantime why not try my online store

 

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