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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Welcome to this weekend’s bonus artist threat my choice of bonus artist this weekend is , Irene Mary Dowling 1925 to 2023, better known as Jane Dowling was a British artist born in London.  While studying for a degree at St Anne’s College Oxford between 1943and 1946 she also studied at the Slade School of Fine Art . Between 1946 and 1963 she took further courses at the Ruskin  School of a Art  the Byam Shaw School of Art and the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London.  Jane then went on to teach at the at the Byam  Shaw School of Art , Maidstone School of Art and at the Royal Academy Schools. During 1984-85 Jane and her husband the Portrait Painter Peter Greenham had a joint touring exhibition. Bio from Wikipedia. I hope you enjoy my selection of her work and discover some on like that you particularly like.

Tessa Gwynne

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Interestingly different Dixie, I rather like her work and of course hadn’t heard of her before! Is that last but one hers? Looks a bit out of place? I will look more later. Thanks for the intro.

Jenny Harris

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I also thought the second to last looked quite different to the rest. A google search shows it as a 1624 painting by the Dutch artist Abraham Bloemaert.  Not sure about the featured artist’s work, will have a look at some more later.

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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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It was attributed to her on the web but of course it could be wrong, I think she has several different style  , have to say I’m not to sure of her work yet but after a longer look I will decide one way or tother . Just caught up with Jenny’s post again it was under her name but I do find the web is somewhat confusing at times . Teach me to look more closely in future . 

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Alan Bickley

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I like some of these, subtle in tone they certainly are…many are almost like pastel drawings but that’s egg tempera for you!
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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I know so little about egg tempera , it always seems pale to me and a bit washed out . 

Jenny Harris

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Had another look at her work - she did also apparently paint in oil, these are two of her paintings listed as oil.

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Lewis Cooper

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Not entirely sure about this artist's work.  However, I like her choice of subject matter.  The best one for me, is the last.  I too know little about egg tempera, but I'll take Alan's opinion on this matter.  I know it's an ancient medium, many examples have survived from ancient Egyptian times.  Those modern artists I've stumbled across who use egg tempera seem less wishy-washy than these.  If the Dieppe painting is tempera, maybe they all are...they have the same look.  I find her work interesting but I'm not wowed by it, as I have been with many artists featured in this series of threads.
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Tony Auffret

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I am with Lew on this one, not sure about her work, though it has a certain charm.  Looked on line, but nothing really grabbed me.  I did see the first sketch below which I found attractive, then found it was part of a 2 sketch lot (see second).  Sold for £65 the pair, including a 30% buyer's premium.  Certainly a bargain, but it's depressing to think the frames probably cost more than that.

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Robert Jones, Napa

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Thanks for clearing up the mystery of that classical oil painting, which hit me in the eye as being out of place.  Confusing - don't confuse me, I get confused enough already.... Egg tempera, which I have never used, is a technique requiring a careful build-up of colour (though it can be scribed into, as she has in one of the portraits above.  I do find these paintings - on-screen at least - indistinct and somewhat gauzy....  Egg tempera doesn't have to look like that, as a version of the Wind in the Willows, produced I think for the Folio Society, proved.  I think that's a matter of style rather than a feature of the medium, but bow to the experience of those who have actually used it.  The sketches most recently posted remind me of June Crawshaw's paler watercolours - they have a charm of their own.   I have to admit though - looking at all but the oil paintings, she has me yearning for colour and contrast: I like strong images ... not necessarily light-suffused, but still distinct.  

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I have made egg tempera many years ago. Interesting and worth having a go…as I recall, I didn’t find it particularly easy to paint with but I may have another shot at it!
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Lewis Cooper

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I had a look online and found this... ...having revisited Paul's first selections, some are growing on me a little more.  Oddly it's the tempera aspect that got my attention.  As I said, I know little about it, and have never used it.  I'm used to more lively colour in this medium by artists whose work I've admired.  Like these egg tempera paintings below... I probably shouldn't be surprised with the results artists achieve with the various mediums.  For example watercolour constantly  amazes me in its great variety. I did consider giving tempera a try a while back, but on reading about it found out that it dries extremely quickly (?).