YORKSHIRE-BASED ARTIST

Painting in acrylics, oil & mixed media

If you can walk through the light filled spaces in your mind’s eye, get close to the colour and if you can share with me the joy I feel when I paint, then I am a successful artist.
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Painting looking up stairs in La Orotava Tenerife in oil by Joan Hudson
La Orotava Tenerife | Oil | 50x40cm | £350 | Available

"I want to paint something unexpected – something I glimpse through light filled space. "

– Joan Hudson

Joan Hudson, East Yorkshire artist, at work in her studio with a Tenerife street scene painting on the easel and spring daffodils on the windowsill nearby

About the artist

From teaching art to a life of painting

I loved teaching art in schools and college, and still tutor and take workshops now — but it became increasingly obvious that I too had to explore where my art journey would lead me. I love the journey art takes me on.

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Commissions

Bespoke work available in acrylics, oil or mixed media to your specification.

Framing

Gallery-ready or custom framing arranged. Work viewed and sold without frames.

Currently

Exhibiting in Hornsea art gallery and tutoring in Beverley Art Society

View the work

  • Bridlington sunrise with Seagull silhouettes looking out to sea – acrylic painting by Joan Hudson
  • Commissioned oil painting of The Lodge, Eastgate, Hornsea – a Victorian Gothic stone house with black and white timbering, decorative chimneys, ornate iron gate and clipped topiary under blue sky – by Joan Hudson
  • Misty early morning light filtering through silver-barked cherry trees over lush bright green grass – acrylic painting by Joan Hudson

Recent Exhibitions

Recent exhibitions

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The Gallery, Hornsea 2025/26
Ferens Open Exhibition2025
Beverley Open Exhibition2025
The Paperspoon Gallery, Malton2024
The Old Town Gallery, Bridlington2023
Gallery 49 Bridlington Winter Exhibition2021 - 2022
Hornsea Art Society Open Weekend - Meet the Artists2021
The Seagull Gallery2018
Beverley Open Art Exhibition2017
Bridlington Spa Artwaves Exhibition2016
Wolds Gallery Bainton2015
Burton Agnes Artist in Residence for 8 years2013-2019
East Yorkshire Open Studios2013
East Riding Artists Open Exhibition2012
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