Scottish Artist and his Garden

Scottish artist John Stoa compiles notes and pictures of his painting projects and seasonal gardening activities in the flower, fruit and vegetable garden and greenhouse. website www.johnstoa.com

Monday, 28 October 2019

PUMPKINS

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                                                              PUMPKINS Pumpkins Pumpkins belong to the cucurbita family, which ...
Monday, 21 October 2019

HEALTH BENEFITS OF BLACK FRUITS

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HEALTH BENEFITS OF BLACK FRUITS I can remember getting my first allotment up at Stirling Park on the Law Hill in early 1960s. I had ...
Monday, 14 October 2019

A DAY UNDER GLASS

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A DAY UNDER GLASS Crops in the greenhouse, may be well protected from the worst of the weather, so the incessant rainfall did not ...
Monday, 7 October 2019

FLOWERS FOR THE SPRING

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                                                FLOWERS FOR THE SPRING Autumn is a great time to look ahead to next year and make pl...
Monday, 30 September 2019

AUTUMN FLOWERS

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                                                             AUTUMN FLOWERS The garden is beginning to go into its autumn phase as b...
Tuesday, 24 September 2019

ALLOTMENT LIFE

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                                                             ALLOTMENT LIFE I got my first allotment when I was a mere young lad of ...
Thursday, 19 September 2019

Autumn art classes

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  Evening art classes for the autumn session  The autumn art class session of 12 weeks begins on Monday 23rd September at John's Studi...

AUTUMN CROPS

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                                                              AUTUMN CROPS As summer makes way for autumn, the harvesting range of f...
Sunday, 8 September 2019

THE GARDENERS WEATHER

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                                                         Gardeners Weather To achieve consistently good crop yields of fruit and veg...
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John Stoa
I was born in Scotland commencing working life as a gardener in Dundee Parks Dept. I studied crop science at The Scottish Crop Research Institute in Invergowrie Dundee. After getting married moved south to Sussex. Gained the National Diploma in Horticulture in 1969, then moved to Worcester to work as a manager on Fox Fruit Farm. In 1972 returned to parks work and outdoor leisure facilities in Dudley then onto Darlington, and Livingston before returning to Dundee in 2001. Became a full time artist in 1992. Interest in art was established in early childhood and am self taught. Subjects cover town to country, floral to figurative, snow scenes, summer landscapes, and Scottish castles. I run art classes in my studio and often publish limited edition prints, as well as luxury Christmas cards. My art and gardening and allotment activities can be seen on my ever expanding website www.johnstoa.com
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