Original Artworks Yes! It is my long awaited solo art exhibition! Finally after months of planning. The venue was booked too long ago to...

Be part of the world not apart from the world: Warning! there now follows a heavy environmental rant on an artist's blog post. Ironic eco...

New artwork has been added to art4oka.com. See below for details: Protecting the Puffin's Egg Original artwork & text by Jonathan Oakes...

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...

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...

I am not normally the one for painting landscapes. You will not find me with an easel on a hilltop or with a watercolour set beside the...

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...

The 2023 National Open Exhibition ‘Humanity’ will be the sixth Outside In National Open exhibition and the first to tour venues across...

Direct Art Action Gallery original artworks exhibition by abstract artist Jonathan Oakes Come and view a broad selection of artworks in a...

A great opportunity has arisen! Some of my artwork has been selected for the brand new and very exciting Art Post project. The project...

10 of my artworks are being exhibited @ The Island Gallery Space Bridewell Street Bristol, UK. BS1 2BE (w3w = yours.ever.merit) Great...

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...

I have 12 original abstract artworks on display at the Courtyard Gallery This Exhibition is now on! The Courtyard Gallery Ballroom Arts...

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...

Just a short post to remind, that the exhibition containing 20 plus of my original abstract paintings will be ending at the end of...

I have uploaded some new/old images onto the website art4oka.com !!! New /old because these particular artworks were completed a few...

I originally thought it was the promised land. Endless creativity glimpsed at, imagined and relished. No more paint splatters on clothes,...

I have been painting and creating art for many years. It probably seriously started around 1992. Friends were away at various Art...

If you read my information pages on art4oka.com you will read some of the descriptors of my work and some of the indications of the style...

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...