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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Welcome to week 50 , we are in for a treat this week as Marjorie is presenting a father  and son both excellent are excellent artists. Alexander Goudie and Lachlan Goudie. I will leave it to Marjorie to decide which one she will introduce first , and say a thank you for taking on the challenge of two artist in the one week. Can I remind you all to put on your thinking caps and choose a painting or several that you have particularly liked over the past year, end of February we will have reached the one year mark. 
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Gillian Cooke

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Fallen off forum. Look forward to Marjorie’s intro
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Thanks for recovering it Gillian , I do hope all is well with Marjorie. I have sent her a message, hopefully she is ok and can start it off later or tomorrow if not I will post a couple of paintings . 
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Marjorie Firth

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Alexander and Lachlan Goudie, father and son.  At first I was considering only Lachlan but when I discovered his father’s work it was too stunning to leave out. So here we have two Scottish artists, the elder, Alexander, very influenced by The Glasgow Boys and their techniques and by Velazquez, Manet and Van Dyck and passing on to his son, Lachlan, all the skills and enthusiasm he acquired throughout his life both as a teacher and a painter. Alexander Goudie (1933 - 2014) Alexander Goudie was a Scottish figurative artist, a student at The Glasgow School of Art and, later a tutor at the School. He was flamboyant ( many photos show this) and considered by some to be opinionated. You get a sense of the man looking at his many self-portraits. As a portraitist his subjects range from Queen Elizabeth 11 to Billy Connolly and his paintings were collected by the Duke of Edinburgh. He married Marie-Renee Dorval ,a native of Brittany, and many of his landscapes and Still Lifes reflect life there. More self- portraits and Lachlan as a little boy…..

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Marjorie Firth

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Some of his Still Lifes are painted in the family kitchen in Brittany - everyday objects, garlic and fruit ( I particularly like the fruit basket in watercolour). And some further paintings I chose are a Breton landscape and two interiors.
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Marjorie Firth

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On Wednesday I’ll do the intro for Lachlan. Lots of info if you go to The Scottish Gallery online and search “Alexander Goudie”. Lots of very interesting Youtube talks.

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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Thank you for the introduction to Alexander G ,Marjorie I have had a look at his work and it is really impressive. It will be great to compare the two painter work , do you think his son was influenced enough to show it in his work ?.

Norrette Moore

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Fabulous stuff, although I am not sure about the leaping naked woman paintings, someone might advise me on their meaning? 🙂 Those peaches! Economy of stroke.

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Marjorie Firth

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I think the leaping women etc are from his illustrations of TamO’Shanter.

Fiona Phipps

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Excellent introduction Marjorie, I admire the work of both artists. My favourite paintings of the elder have got to be the series of 54 (?) paintings depicting Robert Burns poem, Tam O’Shanter. Two of which Paul has posted above. They are on permanent exhibition at the Rozelle House gallery in south Ayrshire….and what a sight to behold! If you want to be transported to the very nicht  that Tam came upon the sights of Witchery in Alloway kirk and was chased by Nannie over the Brig o Doone, listen to the poem ….   https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PJ-xw3oBCeY    Paste and copy into Google. It’s brilliant and brings the paintings alive.
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Marjorie Firth

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I’ll do that Fiona but might need an interpreter? Meanwhile, look at this beautiful Still Life, “ Afternoon tea”
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Lewis Cooper

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I've long admired Alexander Goudie's work, in particular the Tam O'Shanter series described by Fiona above.  They appeal to my love of myth and Fantasy, the paintings are beautifully realised.  I especially like this one, already shown above, but reposted here for convenience... ...even the tangled tree on the right seems to be reaching for Tam (a tree that Dixie will like, I'm guessing), in the tree's shadows are numerous dark beasties...something I missed the first time I saw this.  A wonderous evocation of a wonderful yarn.  I admire all his work. I'd love to go and see the actual paintings, but that's unlikely now.
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