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Inspiration from Artists Week 41 : Ray Blackwell and John McCombs
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Sorry Dixie - am away from home and only just saw this! I can post some of his work and will try to do the intro after.
He is an English artist still very much alive and kicking and producing lovely work.
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John McCombs ROI RBA.
Born Manchester 1943
Attended st Martins School of Art under Gore and Kossoff.
Member of Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, Saddleworth Group of Artists.
John is a landscape and figure painter whose subject matter is essentially the Pennine landscape in and around the village of Delph in Saddleworth.
He says
‘ I am interested in the nature of landscape but seen under a fleeting light. My aim is to make a personal visual record of the village of Delph and the surrounding landscape before the character of the area is spoiled by development.
I also like painting the clothes figure and this can include crowd, group or single figure subjects based on the social and working life of the village. Based upon observation my technique is that of using incisive but vigorous brush line drawing over flatly applied areas of colour. It is an investigative technique where close study of the subject and personal expression become integral’
I have seen John’s work at the Mall Galleries in London several times and love his style. I like the idea that he mostly works in his local area.
I also really like his figure studies.
Hope you enjoy!
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by Tessa Gwynne
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Thats great Hillary, it must have been a typo when I put him on the list I knew you had suggested the name as I had your initials at the side of it . It you would kindly introduce him on Wednesday lunchtime that would be great . The problem with been dyslexic when typos happen I don’t alway notice you would think after all these years I would always double check I do most of the time but then get a bit lazy .
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I first came across John McCombs' work in an article in either Leisure Painter or The Artist, and thought he was magical then, and still do - he gets such warmth into his paintings, and I love the sharp angles in his buildings, sometimes multiple edges, but still sharp and very much Yorkshire - I hadn't seen Yorkshire when I first encountered him, but did later. I have never seen his figure work before - what a revelation.
As I remember (and you know what memory does, so I won't swear to it) he painted/paints on cardboard sometimes, and doesn't varnish his work but displays it under glass - unusual for an oil painter. I do remember quite clearly though that he said he often caught his scenes "before the bulldozers moved in": I imagine most of us can relate to that.
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What a superb artist I love his landscapes and portraits I’ve gone with the landscapes first will have a good look at the portraits tomorrow.
The mono colour of the back to back streets reminds me so much of Leeds in the 1950/60 when we visited grandparents and my uncles who live in such a street.
The mono colour of the back to back streets reminds me so much of Leeds in the 1950/60 when we visited grandparents and my uncles who live in such a street.