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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Welcome to this weekends bonus artist Clifford Charles Turner 1920- 2018 was a post war contemporary artist who unfortunately I have not been able o find much about . One of the many discovered whist researching for the thread .  I hood you enjoy his work despite having little information about him. I’m posting early due to a busy evening. 

Sylvia Evans

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You are right Paul there is virtually no info about this artist. I have just done a Google trawl.  I can see why you like the first one the boats ...I like  the African animal# but do wonder how/ where he did them.   He doesn't  especially excite me...Marks out of six out of ten.
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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I have done a search as well Sylvia nothing there our mystery artist I think. Still I like his work . 
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Gillian Cooke

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Yes pity there isn’t much out there. Of the ones you have shown us Paul I like the second one with the washing on the line. Reminds me of being a kid and Mum doing the washing every Monday without fail! I was roped in on summer holidays when off school! I think that’s often what draws me to certain pictures, nostalgia! 
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Nostalgia is a big draw to a lot of use when looking at artwork, something just clicks and your back in time for a few moments.  Old  photos do the same if it’s of places I’m sure all of us have liked one painting just because of the nostalgia. There are quite a few of his paintings on line but almost no information about him , date of blithe and death is about all I can find . A few more of his paintings.

Tessa Gwynne

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I also looked and found the same as you Dixie and Sylvia- basically very little. His date of birth suggests he would have been called up in WW2, hence I guess the aircraft paintings.  Otherwise we can assume he was a countryman who painted what was around him. Possibly he never exhibited or sold much, but an interesting and proficient artist. We will probably never know where the lions came from!
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Tony Auffret

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Although I don't recall coming across Clifford Turner before, there is something very familiar about Dixie's second posting, the washing drying on the line - my favourite of all the postings so far.  Something at the back of my mind wondered if Stanley Spencer had once done something along similar lines (sorry about the pun, it wasn't intended).  A quick Google search, however, was fruitless, I found nothing similar by Spencer or any other artist.
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Tony I believe you right that familiar when I first notice it it felt familiar, I’m struggling to think of a artist we looked at a few months ago who did a lot of paintings of his home town . I will search back the threads and see if I can find out which artist it was . It’s the first artist and the first domestic artist that I have not found a reasonable amount of information about .

Jenny Harris

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Paul, think you might be referring to Harry Bush who did lots of suburban scenes.  Didn’t see anything similar in his work that we looked at earlier, but did come across this by James McIntosh Patrick.  (Another interesting artist you might like to add to your list of bonus artists.)

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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Jenny your a star that is the one I have seen before, he is somewhere on my list so I will bring him forward , would you like to do the introduction. 

Jenny Harris

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As he’s already on your list, Paul, why don’t you do the introduction.  I have quite a few to do  - and more to add to the list later!  (A surprising number of really interesting artists keep popping up on FB!)
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, NAPA

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I have encountered his work before - wish I could remember where, and something about him (my memory for anything has been scrambled over the last two weeks with a recurring infection which I'm hoping will b. off by Christmas).  I do like his lions - they'd excite Sylvia all right if she came face to face with them....: and all of those paintings have something unique; it would be interesting to find out more about this artist, who, if the figures are right, lived to be 98 - surely there has to be something, somewhere.  You'd like to think that a nearly 100 year long life, punctuated with some marvellous paintings, had at least left a discernible trace - or we're all doomed to oblivion the moment we turn our toes up!
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