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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Welcome to week twenty one of Inspiration from Artists this weeks featuring artists are : Constable and Moira Huntley . Alan will introduce Constable and on Wednesday Jenny will introduce Moira Huntley. I hope you enjoy the week and the artwork that is selected . 

Alan Bickley

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John Constable (1776 - 1837) was an English Romantic painter. Born in Suffolk, he spent many years painting the landscape around the area of Dedham Vale, and it was here that he produced some of his most famous (and now commercially popular) paintings, ‘The Haywain’ being just one such work. We have had a wealth of great masters in our tradition of landscape painting. Constable is one of those great masters, Turner is another who instantly comes to mind, and I spoke about his paintings a few weeks ago. Constable was an absolute master at skies, and gave them equal attention as to the landscape itself, without the two competing - and that isn’t easy to pull off! Although his finished studio masterpieces are undoubtedly great works of art, I tend to prefer his looser plein air oil sketches…It’s probably more my own style to some lesser degree! Bold paint loaded brush strokes without all that detail… wonderful stuff! Constable usually painted oil sketches outdoors – as in this study of ‘Dedham Lock and Mill’ – so that he could quickly and freely capture the ever-changing light and movement in the landscape. Later in the studio, he could refer back to these sketches as he planned larger compositions.  Dedham Lock & Mill Branch Hill Pond, Hampstead  Seascape Study with Rain Cloud

Sylvia Evans

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Wow thanks Alani think I have just assumed that Constable was the Hay Wain full stop . A nice pic but probably seen too many times.  These are stunning ,eyes opened.  
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Superb choice of paintings Alan and thank you for the introduction.  . I love his East Anglian sky I lived about fifteen miles away from the Dedham area wher had used to paint and lived the big sky's due to the low landscape. I did visit Flatford mill a few time sadly I did not paint at the time. I will now hung out some of his lesser known paintings. 

Alan Bickley

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This is one of my favourites, Salisbury Cathedral.
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I'm with you Alan -  as accomplished as his large studio works are those oil sketches above the works I'd go for - so full of atmosphere and so - well - so exciting.
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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I came across quite a few that I like . Apparently the one with the white cow in the boat was his personal favourite, the beach scene is near Brighton, he visited the area a lot with his wife who had TB. The others I just like particularly the one that look like studies . 

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I've been looking through his paintings and there are some lovely works. Some of them, I was surprised, I would not have thought they had been painted by him. Ladies From The Family Of Mr William Mason Of Colchester. The Young Boat Builders. Flatford Mill, 1817

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I like the one which Paul has already selected of the white horse (not cow!) in the boat.  I do, though, find some of his work a bit dark and heavy.  These I hadn’t seen before and have a lighter, more airy feel to them - Wivenhoe Park and Wheat Field.  Beautiful skies and lovely colour in the second one. And this one I like, for the rich colour - and the donkey! Wooded Landscape.

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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Thanks Jenny I had not noticed that I had put cow when it clearly is a horse. 
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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The more you look the more you realise how different his work is to the usual paintings we see.  The painting of the small child is supposedly his young daughter, the others a some of his sky studies and a tree study , I included some with rainbows as I know there was a discussion a while ago about including them in paintings I think Denise was particularly interested . 
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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As I recall, the last picture shown here was quite an early one (i.e. the single tree study). It would be intersting to put these in date order, although that information can be found without too much difficulty.  I suspect the family group painting chosen by Denise was also quite an early work - which might be why it looks untypical.  His 'wild' works, those oil sketches for more polished paintings, have always been the ones that most appealed to me; too paint a dramatic picture, without making it melodramatic and forced, is a rare talent.   At least we can now see Alan's contribution properly, shorn of the rubbish spam from our Arabian 'friend'....
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