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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Welcome to week 142 of the thread the featuring artists this week ar : Adam Hargreaves and Cecil Charles Windsor Aldin . I will ope the week with my introduction to Adan Hargreaves and on Wednesday Jenny will presents her chosen artist Cecil Charles Windsor Aldin . Adam Hargreaves b1963 is an English author and illustrator who when not writing or creating illustrations is a very good artist .  Adam is the son of Roger Hargreaves the creator of the Mr Men series of children’s books. Adam was following a career in farming when his father died and took on the business and continued to produce tbd Mr Men series , which hie still illustrates and writes despite having sold the  rights ton publishing company. He is credited with give in his father the inspiration to write and illustrate the books as at the age of eight he asked “ What  does a tickle look like “.  I became aware of his painting whist researching for this thread but didn’t realise that he was the artist behind the Mr Men books until I was looking at information about his work and life. I will say I was quite shocked but really impressed with his landscape  , I will admit to not being very keen on the books despite having read many to my children and grandchildren. There is a biography on Wikipedia, fro which I took some information.  I hope you enjoy my selection of his artwork and I leave you to make your decision on his work as I’m just a tad biased having enjoyed then for the past couple of weeks.  And of course one of his book illustrations .

Tessa Gwynne

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Beautiful landscapes Dixie and the magnolia blooms are just stunning!
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Tony Auffret

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I am always in awe of people who can focus on so much detail.  I did look for more of his work on line, but predictably without excluding Roger the search was overwhelmed by Mr Men.  Adam H doesn't seem to have his own website and the only galley I found had just a few works.  All credit to Paul/Dixie for finding those examples he has posted.

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Alan Bickley

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You can’t fault his commitment and dedication to detail!  I’m not sure about the hundreds of tiny individual brush strokes because it isn’t my thing, but it doesn’t look overly ‘tight’ and I actually really like most of his wooded landscapes. There’s a certain ‘old England’ charm or atmosphere that he’s created, excellent find Paul! My favourite is the fourth one down, a wooded area with dappled sunlight showing through.. 

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Linda Wilson

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I am amazed and also impressed by dappled sunlight, but I prefer no. 5 and the bark in no.2.

Jenny Harris

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What a total contrast between his Mr Men illustrations and his beautifully painted landscapes.  Of Paul’s selection above, I like best the second and fourth. … and I like this one as it’s a more impressionistic style.

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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Certainly is a contrast Jenny I think that's what attracted me to his work when I noticed his landscapes . A few more for today and a photo of the artist doing his day job .

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Some more to finish off my selections.

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Jenny Harris

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CECIL CHARLES WINDSOR ALDIN (1870 - 1935) was a British artist and illustrator best known for his paintings and sketches of animals, sports and rural life.  An enthusiastic sportsman and Master of Hounds, much of his work illustrated hunting, and his early influences included Randolph Caldecott (whose work we have already featured). Born in Slough, he started drawing at very early age, encouraged by his father who was a keen amateur artist. He enrolled at an art studio in Kensington but, unhappy at the teaching methods there, left to study animal anatomy at The National Art Training School, also in Kensington.  He subsequently worked as an illustrator for The Illustrated London Times as well as producing illustrations for the works of Charles Dickens (Pickwick Papers) and Rudyard Kipling (The Second Jungle Book).  He worked in numerous mediums, including oil, pencil, pen and ink, watercolour, chalks, pastels and etching.  His 1918 oil painting ‘A Land Girl Ploughing’ - now held in the Imperial War Museum - is considered among the most iconic of his depictions of the Women’s Land Army.  One of the land girls modelled for the painting to ensure all details of the uniform were accurate. After WWI he spent much of his time organising pony and dog shows, but continued to paint, producing many equestrian portraits and dog studies.  In 1930, for health reasons, he relocated to the Balearic Islands where he continued to work.  However, travelling back to England for a visit in 1935 he died after suffering a heart attack while at sea.

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With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

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Two very different artists: I'm drawn to the first - work in which you can lose yourself.   The second deals with a world with which I'm not in  any kind of sympathy, that mix of sentiment and blood-lust which was so typical of a certain class of men: I'm not able to see beyond its ethos to find much aesthetic inspiration in it - and I don't like its anthromorphistic elements either.  I'm afraid I've never been able to look at a scarlet coated buffoon on horseback without quietly willing their horse to throw them off. Aldin - who in fairness drew and painted much more work than could possibly be shown here, well-observed and with a clean line, would have had his legion of hunters trampling through Hargreaves' landscapes, and I'm not able to get over my repulsion for him and his kind.  

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An anticipated response from Robert, but hopefully others will appreciate his work for its artistic skills. (Although fox hunting then was very much an elitist ‘sport’, it was also an accepted, major part of rural life at the time, seen as ridding the countryside of what were then considered vermin, and at the same time providing valuable employment for many local tradespeople - farriers, saddlers, feed merchants, grooms, kennel staff etc.)

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