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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Welcome to this weekends Inspiration from Artists the bonus artis this weekend is Christopher Jarvis . Chris was was born and brought up in Kent and from a early age was Interested in art . As a teenager he became a professional drummer in the pop scene of the 1960s. In 1988 he decided to become a full time artist. In 1998 he move to Rochester  since then his work has been extensively published and exhibited throughout England particularly in the south east .  I hope you enjoy his artwork, he is another of the many artist new to me I only became aware of his work a month ago. 
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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A few more of his superb paintings. 

Denise Cat

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New one for me and I think his urban scenes are excellent Paul.

Jenny Harris

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He has a lovely style, Paul, in both oil and watercolour (sometimes difficult to tell which is which).  Prefer his paintings of open spaces to the townscapes - great skies.

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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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I also prefer his countryside paintings Jenny  ,  though I do find his urban landscape interesting . I suppose it comes down to having always preferred landscapes and country scenes etc.  He is one of those artists that I like due to his style of painting no matter what he painted I think I would enjoy it. 

Tessa Gwynne

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I prefer the looseness shown mostly in his landscapes and he has painted some good big skys.

Sylvia Evans

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I like his paintings....but am curious as to his old fashioned subjects in some of them.   They are almost the work of artists a century earlier... The skies are magnificent. 
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Andrew Roles

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He has an enviable looseness of style, particularly in the watercolours. I also think his skies are magnificent. Thanks for highlighting his work. 
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Robert Jones, NAPA

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He does seem to have some nostalgia for the past - including a farming scene (the first picture posted) graced by elm trees, which will long since (sadly) have gone.  There is a market for that, of course - to turn a bob or two, maybe more of us should exploit it!   I might have given away already that some of this work isn't really to my taste, but he is certainly a master of sky painting, and a superb draughtsman.  I have, perhaps, a prejudice that we should be painting what we can see today rather than what others saw in the past, but there's that word "should" - what an artist should do is what that artist wants to do.  

Sylvia Evans

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Little miss perfection me has a complete thingy about copying other peoples work....I just don't do it.   If I see a photograph I like I ask permission to use it.  Plus if I'm not sure how long a rabbits ears are or the colour of an Orang Utans  bum is I will look for reference.   But each to his own...I won't shout or condemn....well,  not today. 
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Lucian Hodoboc

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The plane, car and boat ones took me by surprise. I find the rest not as impressive, but still pretty good. He seems to switch up his style a bit every once in a while.