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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Welcome to week 16 bonus artist : Keith Melling Born 1946 . Keith is a landscape painting and held his first exhibition in 1966. His paintings of the Dales and the northern countryside are still very popular and sought after. I hope you enjoy his artwork some of it is very detailed and other more abstract, hopefully you will find something you like . I’m opening up with a variety taken a random as I was getting a huge collection to post. 
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Linda Wilson

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These are very good.  Thanks for bring him your our attention.
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Your welcome Linda hope you feeling much better. 
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Michael Edwards

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Not the kind of art that usually appeals to me but I do like the last one - the view towards a cathedral - superb limited palette and great sense of light. . 

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Jenny Harris

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I particularly like his paintings of the Yorkshire Dales, brings back memories of holidays there. This is Muker in Swaledale.

Tessa Gwynne

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Lovely work and I also like the view towards the cathedral.

Denise Cat

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He captures the Dales and Lakes beautifully. Some excellent work. Calm Evening, Grasmere. White Scars and Whernside. Sunshine and Shower. Rainbows have become my pet hate in painting and this is a wonderful scene but the rainbow doesn't look right. Of course, I'm an amateur and often don't know what I'm talking about when it comes to art. I'm currently trying to take my own photos of rainbows to do my own study. I've captured one so far but they sure have the ability to ruin a beautiful painting.

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Tony Auffret

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A fascinating range.  Some strike me as a bit 'Christmas Cardy' but others, like the painting of Muker, are just stunning.
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Tony Auffret

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Ooops, double post.  Fingers are getting old and doddery!

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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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I think he is one of those artists that produces a lot of sellable painting bought by the visitors to the Dales and it’s a fine way to make a living . I enjoy and admire his artwork both the detailed work and the morse abstract ones he is a very skilled artist. A few more the I particularly like. 
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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I think you're right Paul - some of the paintings are idealized to a degree, but I'd give my eye-teeth and a complete set of molars to have the level of skill needed to create them.  I'm a certified lover of trees - I paint a lot of them!  And the painting above - the first in your latest post - is masterly and appeals to me greatly.  I would call this painter a creator of classic oil paintings, on a professional basis - i.e., it's his living, and he knows his market.  That's no criticism - Constable was much the same: it's just that these days, some of us anyway value his lively sketches for his major works more  than the carefully finished, polished and presented studio paintings.   I'd love to see if Keith Melling has the same sort of experience in his work: strong sketches, full of tonal contrast and energy, to balance the calm and serenity of his landscapes.   Either way, this is an artist previously entirely unknown to me - and another great discovery.  
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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I to love trees as you may know Robert and I agree the painting of the superb and one of  the best I have seen in a long time.  I would be content half the  skill he displays in his paintings , pleased you like his work Robert I know you don’t give praise unduly. There are so many artists that I would not of known of thought of looking at until I started researching for the thread and the unknown work of the of the better known artist had been a revelation, I really looking forward to the Turner Fest , I’m sure Alan is going to post some excellent work that we don’t know much about or know about at all. 
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