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John Gerrie Artwork
December 2025 Newsletter
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A year nearly gone
Well my friends, another year is almost gone, with Christmas Day fast approaching.
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For me, 2025 has produced a wide range of subjects to paint, and I’ve thoroughly enjoyed the experience. I hope many of the pieces have been to your liking—stirring memories, places, and personal moments—while others became studies of colour and technique. A few didn’t meet my own quality control, but even those experiments have been worth keeping, as reminders of the standard I always strive to reach.
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Featured painting: York Minster
To round off the year, I wanted to paint something with real presence—a subject that carries history, craft, and a sense of wonder. This month’s featured painting is York Minster, inspired by photographs my son brought back from his Yorkshire holiday and by memories of a visit Alison and I made many years ago.
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I’ve portrayed the West Front in a dramatic, almost fisheye perspective so the cathedral seems to rise towards the sky, with inked Gothic detail softened by transparent watercolour washes. It’s a piece that reminded me just how powerful the right subject can be when you give it time, patience, and a careful hand. I truly hope you enjoy it as much as I did creating it.
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A Christmas thought
If any of my newsletters or watercolour subjects have inspired you this year, I’d love to think you might even ask Santa for a box of watercolours—whether you’re starting out or continuing your journey. It’s one of life’s great quiet pleasures: making something with your own hands, at your own pace, and finding that calm focus that comes with it.
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Looking ahead
Happy Christmas to you all, and may you go forward into 2026 with vigour, purpose, and fresh ambitions.
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I truly appreciate your interest in my artwork, and I hope you enjoy reading this newsletter and exploring more paintings on my website.
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Thank you again for your support.
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Website Links
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Marischal College, Aberdeen
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A detailed pen, ink and watercolour painting of the main entrance to Marischal College, Aberdeen, focusing on the granite façade, soaring towers, entrance arch, carved stonework and line of coloured shields.
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Painted from a low, upward viewpoint, this artwork captures the scale, craftsmanship and cool elegance of one of the Granite City’s most recognisable architectural landmarks.
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Crathes Castle Watercolour
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A frontal watercolour painting of Crathes Castle in Aberdeenshire, showing the pale tower, domestic wing, red ivy, green lawn and soft purple-blue sky.
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This calm architectural study captures the castle from a direct viewpoint, highlighting its structure, symmetry and distinctive Scottish character.
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Crathes Castle in Watercolour
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Two Paintings, Two Different Views Crathes Castle is a subject I have returned to twice, and looking at the two paintings side by side shows just how differently the same place can be interpreted in watercolour. Both paintings feature the familiar tower house and the adjoining building, but the viewpoint, colour, atmosphere and composition are quite different. One is more …
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Discounted Original Paintings
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See all discounted originals HERE.
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