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Inspiration From Artist Wk 140 Bonus Artist: Diana Rosemary Lodge
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Welcome to this weekend’s bonus artist thread my choice of artist this week is : Diana Rosemary Lodge 1944- 2023, was a British born artist brought up and lived in the village of Burnsall in the Yorkshire Dales until her death last year.
Having attended Harrogate College of Art She devoted her career to the study of horses and the unique landscape around her.
Painting in oils Diana became renowned for her depiction of the working horse, with particular regard to their place on Romany life .
Information from rosemary lodge.co.Uk.
I hope you enjoy my selection of her unique work
Lastly a photo of the artist
Lastly a photo of the artist
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I don't think I was aware of Ms Lodge - though there's something familiar about some of these paintings; I suppose if you wanted to be hyper-critical, you could say they looked backwards to a past rusticity (though we only have a small sample here, so it would be pretty daft to jump to conclusions); and anyway - looking backwards can be extremely tempting, when you consider the present. The photograph is interesting - it's a bit of an error to judge from a snapshot of someone, but she looks like someone who took great enjoyment from life and the things she observed; and is another one taken too soon - only 6 years older than I am, and I'm just 6 years older than my brother: it does tend to remind one that All Flesh Is As Grass.
I'll certainly take a look at the link provided to her work.
This is a fine piece of work - a lot more on the website. (Incidentally, a propos of elsewhere - note closed gate!)
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Another very fine artist. Like Robert, I find her work firmly lodged in yesteryear. But I guess she was painting those things that appealed to her and were present in her world. Much of beautiful Yorkshire remains as she's painted it. This is not a criticism of the art, merely an observation, from a person of similar age (four years older to be precise).
Her work is admirable.
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I find her work very appealing and skilful. We live only a few miles from Stow on the Wold where the annual gypsy fair takes place, and so the sight of traditional gypsy caravans around here is very familiar. My one daughter owns and works with horses, we have sheep around us, so I can assure you country life like this is still going strong and not just a thing of the past, as I’m sure Carol will agree! Having a farming family in mid Wales, I have also been to a stock market/auction similar to the one below.
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Tessa I agree with you whist the clothing and hairstyle might have change these scenes are still there and the events happening in North Yorkshire . Most of the caravans are no longer horse drawn and look very different but then so do the house we now live in . I realise that both Robert and Lew were not criticising just making observations and my comment isn’t a criticism of their opinion though it could have been seen as such. Appleby Fair is a very old traditional gathering and brings out the older vans and styles of dressing it’s such a colourful event and happily it keeps going.
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I know no one is criticising anything and was just trying to underline that these sights and way of life can still be seen regularly in some areas. Also the flat cap is still alive and going strong!
For most of my life I lived in the city and wouldn’t have seen any of this so I can appreciate that point of view.
It will be interesting to hear what others think. Either way, her work is lovely and I especially like her landscapes.
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Well Tessa, though no longer living in North Yorkshire, I have still got my flat cap. Let's hope cows and sheep never disappear from the countryside, though `I suspect the nature of the traditional agricultural shows is changing. But I am all for recording them as they were and as they are. I think my favourite two are Dixies's first (sheep in the road) and the Railway viaduct.
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Popping back to note that the painting up above, the first one shown by Tessa, is really excellent, I can also clarify that Ms Lodge was BORN 6 years before I was, not that she was six years older than I am now when she died.... because actually, she was only 5 years older .... oh dear...
I'm wondering - it's a long time since I was up North - if Romany people still use horses... or indeed still travel in those wooden caravans: we don't get many of the travelling community down here, but those we do get seem to favour conventionally modern caravans and the car or van to pull them. Compare with some of Dame Laura Knight's paintings - painted when they certainly would have used the traditional means of transport.