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Inspiration From Artist Wk 91 Featuring Artists : Georges Laporte and Carry Ackroyd

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Gillian Cooke

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As you know Paul I enjoy dabbling a seascape or two myself so it’s great to see these beautiful pictures!

Christine Rogan

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Thanks Paul. I too prefer his lithographs- they seem to have a lovely luminosity to them. 

Jenny Harris

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CARRY AKROYD (born 1953) is a painter and printmaker whose images examine the relationship between man, the landscape and wildlife; her work concentrates on colour and shape. Her favourite printmaking technique is serigraphy (screen printing), but she employs a low tech approach, using scissors or scalpel to create cut-paper stencils to control where each layer of ink passes through the screen.  She also produces linocuts and etchings.  For painting she uses watercolour or acrylic on paper. She lives on the Northamptonshire Cambridgeshire border between the Nene Valley and the Fens, and the focus of her prints and paintings is mainly arable landscapes where wildlife lives on the margins of agriculture. She has illustrated three books of John Clare’s poems, and her work has also been used on various book covers.  She is currently the series cover artist for Bloomsbury’s British Wildlife Collection and John Crumley’s Encounters in the Wild series published by Saraband.

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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Thank you for the informative introduction Jenny  your choice of her work artwork is superb. I will have a good look and pick some I particularly like. 

Jenny Harris

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Just bringing this back up again - doesn’t take long to get bumped off the top section!
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Sone thst I really like there are so many I could fill the thread with them, don’t think I’ve duplicated any thst already posted.
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Helen Martell

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I particularly like the landscape Jenny posted (3rd pic) with the fox, and the landscape Paul posted with the white owl flying (5th of Paul’s selection).
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Lewis Cooper

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I have great admiration for this artists work.  An interesting design element with flat shapes and perspectives in some cases.  Even the more representational works have her unique 'take' on things.  A really gifted artist.  Thanks for showing these Jenny.

Tessa Gwynne

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What beautiful happy work Jenny! Fascinating style/s and design work. 
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It would be just as rewarding to see this work being made as it is to see the final results (not something you can say about every arty process...).
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Andrew Roles

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Excellent work. I stand in awe of her ability to see what we all see and represent it in a different way. I quite often pick up books on the strength of their cover designs and it really helps to know a bit about the artist who creates them. Thanks Jenny.

Tessa Gwynne

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Good point Andrew. Not so long ago I bought the wonderful book English Pastoral by James Reebanks, at least partly because of the superb cover illustration by Angela Harrison, who was one of our inspiring artists discussed here previously. If you haven’t read it I recommend it. I am often attracted to a book by its cover, and I’m sure I’m not alone in that. Incidentally I also bought as a Christmas present, a pack of cards designed by Michael Morgan who we also discussed a few months back, so the effect of these discussions obviously reach further than a few days in the mind, at least for me!

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