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Jenny Harris

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At my watercolour classes we often looked at videos by both Shirley Trevena and Ann Blockley and then tried to paint in the same style ourselves - needless to say it was nowhere near as easy as it looked!  I have the first three books published by Shirley in which she discusses her inspiration and working methods - excellent books, well worth getting. A quote from one of her books  - 

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Christine Rogan

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Thanks for introducing her to us Jenny. I really like her flower paintings and would love to be able to paint like her! I’m definitely going to look at her more closely. 

Jenny Harris

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A few more before we move on tomorrow to the next artist.

Tessa Gwynne

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Jenny I have very little inclination to use watercolour, except when I see work like this! I love her composition, use of design and depth of colour which is vivid but never over the top. What puts me off watercolour is what I think of as the Victorian era limp pale landscape, which Shirley’s work definitely is not! I have always enjoyed her articles. Hard to chose a favourite of the choices above, but the daffodils are glorious.
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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I can understand where your coming from Tessa  unfortunately most people think of watercolour as a Victorian pastime and that I can only be used for the more traditional style of painting. I paint landscape etc in watercolour because I enjoy it, but work like this and some of the Chinese artwork really does show what versatile medium I can be . I do think some of the painting that you have done would look excellent in watercolour, there’s a challenge give it a go maybe we should have a paint in watercolour challenge one month , Dawn might take up on that. Lets have more of her excellent work before we move on .

Tessa Gwynne

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Good idea Dixie! Also I agree about the Chinese artists we’ve looked at- excellent. 

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Tessa, if you search You Tube there are a few demos of her at work - she tends to go straight in with the paint without any preliminary sketching - fascinating to watch, she makes it look so easy, but it’s obviously a technique she’s perfected over many years.  I love her work for its vibrant colours and luminosity, and the different perspectives you can see within her paintings where objects merge seamlessly into one another.   I know she’s a fan of Daniel Smith watercolours - there are some unusual and beautiful colours in their range. She tried some of them out (for a feature in The Artist) some time ago and said she was very impressed with them.  This one is featured on their website and was painted with DS watercolours.  

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Hilary Forbes

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I was just reading her article in the latest 'the Artist' and thinking that's the kind of painting I love - bold and expressive, semi-abstract - so pleased to see her work highlighted here. I find her work inspirational, so will be getting some of her books - Thanks Jenny for the info.

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Thanks Jenny. I will have a look. 👍🏻

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Seriously nice.
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Thanks Jenny and everyone for your comments and choices of paintings. Now for a very different style of painting a artist whose work  I have known before but recently I looked at it more closely to use in the thread. Edward Hersay, was born in Surrey in 1948. His paintings are instinctively recognisable landscape and farm buildings have become his trademark subjects.His artistic appreciation for the rural scene painted in in a distinctive style rich in colour and highly detailed compositions have made him a popular artist .  I hope you enjoy his painting , I’m sure that for some it will be to detailed . 

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Tony Auffret

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More bricks than in Bari's gallery!
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