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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Welcome to this weekend 48inspiration from artists bonus artist Warwick Fuller bien in Australia in 1948. With the exception of studying with Kevin Oxley a fellow Australian artist in 1979 Warwick received no formal art training, Influenced by the landscape paintings of his grandfather, hanging and stored at home , he is now one of Australias foremost landscape artist. This is another artist that I came across while researching for the thread , his landscapes are excellent and I particularly like his paintings of trees . I will leave it to our oil painters to comment on his style and the quality of his artwork. 
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Marjorie Firth

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Well, I like these very much Paul - the light and the colour. And you are our “ tree person”. I like his use of purple, his imaginative use of colour.

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Sylvia Evans

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The trees are fabulous. Not sure about the almost photo realism of his landscapes . Thanks for intro.
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Lewis Cooper

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Another impressive artist.  I'm never sure where realism ends and photo realism begins, this artist must be in there somewhere.  No matter, overall I'm impressive by his work.  One painting struck me as odd, I've copied it here.... ...this looks wrong to me, the horizontal branch is thicker than the trunk.  It all looks out of balance, wouldn't the tree fall over?  This artist seems very accurate, so maybe that's how these trees are.  In nature there seems to be room for things that go against nature.  Maybe I'm just plain wrong.  For me it jars, and I'm thinking about that instead of appreciating the work.  But it's early in the morning, maybe my eyes haven't woken up properly.
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Lovely introduction, Dixie, and a great choice of paintings. I particularly like the painting with the stream, and the sheep. The trees could be, white bark acacia, some have these remarkable contortions about them. I'm going to look up more work by this artist.

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Sylvia Evans

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'I see what you mean Lew  it seems quite out of proportion.  It should have more thickness as well, as it meets the main trunk on the ground. It is an odd tree with the markings of a plane tree  but it's the wrong shape...come on Paul what is it ?  You are Mr Tree person. 

Jenny Harris

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I think it’s just two trees one behind the other - if you look at the first of the tree paintings, it appears to be the same scene but painted from behind - the tree leaning over has a separate trunk.  Love this artist’s work, Paul, especially his tree paintings, such warm colours and lovely sunlight.

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Tessa Gwynne

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Another wonderful artist. I love his paintings, great light and super trees even if the one does look slightly odd! I also like especially his coastal scene. So I found myself looking up ‘Australian outback trees’ and found some fascinating photos!  There are some amazing and weirdly shaped gum trees etc which made me think that Fuller surely knew what he was doing, and that his paintings are accurate.

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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Jenny is spot on it’s actually two trees one growing behind the other , the grove and lean at some odd angles .  I spent a few months at Woomera back in the late sixties, when I ask what a tree was call the local guy said it’s a gum tree, a bit  later I asked about another the tree the reply was AGT , another gum tree the third one was a AFGT I will let you work out the F- - - g . I later found out he was posted there for five years as he had been caught in a compromising position with a officer’s lady. I also learned thst I was DBP, dumb bloody pongo . 

Alan Bickley

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Great trees, but I particularly like that coastal scene, the palette is superb!
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Robert Jones, NAPA

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There are some brilliant Australian artists, and they have some fantastic subjects to paint (though as one remarked, you do have to travel a long way to find them).  These are particularly good reproductions, too.  Whenever I see "had no formal art training" (and I admit to prejudice, and offer apologies to those who have) I do tend to think "oh good; might be worth a look, then".  Studying alongside another painter, though, does strike me as formal, if not necessarily structured, training - I wonder if art colleges still have proper painters on the teaching staff, or whether it tends to be mainly other people who have gone through the same academic process as they're teaching their students.... which would seem to be a bit of a dance to the same old tune, ending up in circular motion. I'm not sure what else would explain Billy Childish ... 

Jenny Harris

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Had a look through some more of his work - love the colours and sunlit feel in this rather dramatic seascape.

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