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Inspiration from Artists Week 26 David Dipnell and Walter Langley

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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Thought I would finish off with a few more of his excellent paintings , it’s the trees and light that I really like in there and how he paints the water and reflections. 
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Tony Auffret

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I think the first painting in Dixie's last posting (the river and reflections) is the best of the works shown so far.  Hardly 'chocolate box' .  'Chocolate box' is a curious term of disapproval, if you worked in the marketing department of a confectionary company would choose a poorly executed painting to put on your product?

Jenny Harris

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I like the soft warm glow in a lot of his work.  The second one you’ve just posted, Paul, is beautifully atmospheric with that hazy feel to it.  (Will need to post my bit on Walter Langley a little early - have to be at the dentist lunchtime.)

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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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I agree  Tony unfortunately the term chocolate box certainly give the impression of a poorly executed painting, whilst some may not like his style of painting you can’t honestly say it’s poorly done.  His work has had quite an effect on me one I never though would happen, I stated out as most watercolorist do by painting landscape after a while I got fed up of people say don’t you ever paint anything else, his excellent artwork has given me the urge to get back into landscapes a bit more . I spent two day a week for ten years as a volunteer Ranger clearing a Stone Age hillfort , my aim is to do a series of paintings . 

Jenny Harris

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Walter Langley (1852 - 1922) was a British social realist artist and a founder member of the Newlyn School, a colony of artists of which he was considered the pioneer since he was the first to settle in Newlyn.  He was born in Birmingham to a poor working class family but showed a very early talent for drawing and painting and later trained as a lithographer. In 1879 he founded the Birmingham Art Circle and from that year became a professional artist.  In 1881 he received a commission from a wealthy patron to spend the following year in Newlyn documenting the lives of the fisherfolk.  He was touched by the hardships they faced and his paintings were filled with tales of tragedy, loss and hope.  (Before settling in Cornwall he had spent time painting in Brittany and Holland.)  Although an accomplished oil painter he worked mainly in watercolour, often on a large scale.  The first painting below, ‘Waiting for the Boats’, was a watercolour measuring 16” x 47”. Penlee Gallery in Penzance is holding a Walter Langley centenary exhibition from May to October this year.

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Norrette Moore

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I like these. Reminds me of Frank Sutcliffe's Whitby photographs. Think they were both working around the same time.
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Lewis Cooper

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You've found some quality pictures of this artist's work Jenny.  I've admired his work for a long time, and assumed they were oils.  I know he did paint in oils, but his output in watercolour is breathtakingly good.  The size of many is surprising too, as you mentioned.  Here's one I like.... ...it's called 'among the missing' in watercolour, and measures  46 x 33 inches.
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Robert Jones, Napa

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A salutary reminder that fishing was - and still is, for the small operators - a dangerous business.   Langley was very good at representing the work-worn hands and arthritic wrists of his older women; see the third and fifth one up from the bottom.  

Tessa Gwynne

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Goodness, another wonderful talent. He has certainly captured the hardship of life in those times but also the closeness of the fishing community. Great detail of all the tackle involved in fishing also. I haven’t looked him up myself yet, but these are all watercolour? Amazing! 

Jenny Harris

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Tessa, of those that I posted, the third, fifth and six are oils, the rest are watercolour.  This is another of his watercolours that I like.

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Denise Cat

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My word, his watercolours are so fresh and lively, I'm out and about at the moment but can't wait to get home to have a look at his work.

Tessa Gwynne

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Thanks Jenny. Whichever the medium I like them all- love character paintings and story tellers!
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