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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Welcome to week 28 bonus Artist this weekends Artist is Joan Eardley 1921 -1963.  Joan was born in Kent and became known for her portraiture of street children in Glasgow and her landscape paintings of the fishing  village of Catterlinne . She is on of Scotlands enduringly popular artists , sadly her career was cut short by breast cancer.  I hope you enjoy her work .

Denise Cat

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I love her work Paul, I'm familiar with it. I think it was Marjorie who first mentioned her to me, I could look at her work all day. I'll find some to post later.

Tessa Gwynne

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Another good choice Dixie! There is a fascinating article about her on the BBC Arts website from May 2017. It mentions that she developed a friendship with a family who had twelve children so plenty of painting inspiration there!

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Jenny Harris

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I do remember looking at her work recently, I think it was after she was mentioned in another thread a while ago.  Some of her paintings of street children are quite moving, although I’m not too keen on her painting style in general.

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

Robert Jones, Napa

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Who knows where she might have gone had she lived a longer life - this dreadful disease has robbed the world of so much. I'm drawn more to her drawings than to her paintings, not least because she very consciously drew with the brush - which is fine, the two activities are hardly distinguishable, and yet..... I look for a difference, which is the best way I can find (ie, the only way) of expressing it.   It also might help if I were fonder of paintings of children..... She was clearly still developing as an artist; it's just a tragedy that she was prevented from reaching her full potential.  

Sylvia Evans

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What fab pics of the children.....lovely work.
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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I like her artwork I find that I need to look at her landscape and seascapes for a while before I’m able to see clearly what she has actually done. Some more of her work before we move on this evening to next weeks artists.