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Puffin Birds
New artwork has been added to art4oka.com. See below for details: Protecting the Puffin's Egg Original artwork & text by Jonathan Oakes...
Jonathan Oakes
Aug 6, 20233 min read
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Homeward Bound / Bond
I use to live in Sheffield, U.K. I grew up there, went to school there, started my working life there. When I was about 22 years old I...
Jonathan Oakes
Jul 4, 20233 min read
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Blog Interview, Artist of the Week
If you want to find out a little more about my art and it's processes, the whys and wherefores. Here are a few questions and answers from...
Jonathan Oakes
Apr 16, 20236 min read
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Jonathan Oakes - Featured Artist
Those lovely people at the D31 Art Gallery in Doncaster, U.K Have given me a featured artist slot on their website for a few months. They...
Jonathan Oakes
Feb 4, 20231 min read
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Climate Change - Exhibition
Worcester Open (Climate Change Edition 2023) Opening event :Thursday 12th January 2023 / 5 - 7pm Exhibition dates : 12th January until ...
Jonathan Oakes
Jan 11, 20232 min read
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You Still Have Time
Direct Art Action Gallery original artworks exhibition by abstract artist Jonathan Oakes Come and view a broad selection of artworks in a...
Jonathan Oakes
Dec 16, 20222 min read
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Create for Bees Exhibition
10 of my artworks are being exhibited @ The Island Gallery Space Bridewell Street Bristol, UK. BS1 2BE (w3w = yours.ever.merit) Great...
Jonathan Oakes
Oct 26, 20221 min read
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Bath Open Art Prize 2022
My artwork "Hungapangalow" is on exhibition @ @studio44AD @FringeArtsBath www.bathopenartprize.co.uk Please visit & please vote in the...
Jonathan Oakes
Oct 16, 20221 min read
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Exhibition Open
Great news! one of my paintings is being displayed in "The Landscape" Exhibition at the The Open Gallery 18 Rawson Street, Halifax, West...
Jonathan Oakes
Oct 2, 20221 min read
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New Views
Four new galleries have been added to my website! I've had a bit of a re-shuffle and I've added four new galleries to art4oka.com There...
Jonathan Oakes
Sep 10, 20221 min read
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West Studios Exhibition -It's On!
I have two of my original paintings showing at West Studios Open Exhibition, Chesterfield West Studios Sheffield Road Chesterfield S41...
Jonathan Oakes
Sep 4, 20221 min read
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Concise, Precise perhaps or perhaps not? part 3
In Concise, precise perhaps 2 I wrote about the work of one of my favourite artists, Richard Long. In particular his prose or text...
Jonathan Oakes
Aug 21, 20222 min read
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Something Popped Up!
I should have posted a few days ago with my third instalment of the ongoing saga which are the "Concise, precise perhaps" blogs, but as...
Jonathan Oakes
Aug 11, 20222 min read
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Concise, Precise Perhaps? part 2
In this blog I will hopefully follow on from where I left off /on the other post (Concise, Precise Perhaps? part 1). Although it does not...
Jonathan Oakes
Jul 29, 20223 min read
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I've Been Doing Stuff!
One reason for having my own website art4oka.com is even though I have been researching for months and months I have still not found...
Jonathan Oakes
Jun 23, 20222 min read
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RSN Random Sequence Narrative
The thought starts when I laid out a selection of unrelated photographs, together like this they take on a sequence, a series of pictures...
Jonathan Oakes
Apr 25, 20223 min read
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More Artist Background
I have been painting and creating art for many years. It probably seriously started around 1992. Friends were away at various Art...
Jonathan Oakes
Mar 17, 20222 min read
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Original Abstract Art | Art4oka.com | Portfolio
Welcome to the art4oka.com blog Art4oka.com website has been a long time coming. Finally a show case / portfolio for my artwork. My name...
Jonathan Oakes
Feb 21, 20222 min read
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