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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Welcome to this weeks Inspiration from Artist Week 52 a year on from starting the thread . I would like to thank you all for you contribution's over the year and supporting the thread buy looking at the excellent artwork. We have looked a approximately 250 artists most of them I would not of seen or heard off but for your recommendations. I would like to partially thank Jenny for helping me out when I’ve messed it up and lost the plot and thank you all for putting up with my atrocious spelling. The idea for this week is to select artists who you have particularly enjoyed or who have influenced you or you just like their work . Please choose as many as you wish.  I deliberately keep away from my favourite artists and to start with have selected three , Jack Morrocco, Cheng Kee Chee and Alfred Wainwright, I will only show two painting from each artist .
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Robert Jones, NAPA

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Good choices - are the first two digital? - and especially the Wainwright: original copies of his books are worth quite a bit of money now, though have been re[published from time to time, fortunately, so are not out of reach.  He drew the places he loved, and it shows in everything he did.
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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No there are paintings I don’t think Jack Morrocco did digital . I do particularly like the Wainwright drawing . 

Jenny Harris

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We’ve seen such a variety of artists over the past year, and it was good to revisit old favourites such as John and Ann Blockley, Arthur Rackham, Roger Dean, Henri Rousseau, Shirley Trevena and Richard Thorn, but I’ve chosen four artists whose work I’d only recently come across - Andrea Kowch, Iosif Derecichei, Shelly Perkins and Nick Wroblewski. Thanks, Paul, for all your hard work in keeping it going over the past year, it’s been well worth the effort! Andrea Kowch Iosif Derecichei Nick Wroblewski Shelly Perkins 

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Sylvia Evans

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wow  Jenny some of those are super I can see why you especially like them.   Huge thank you Paul you are a star as is your side kick Jenny. So many artists I have never seen before so much lovely work. Here are two from my favourite Welsh men. Is one Kyffin Williams  and a bit of owd ystone wall Keith Bowen....just look at that sky.

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Tessa Gwynne

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I’ve also chosen a couple of Keith Bowen’s lovely work,  Then Nick Wroblewki And Warwick Fuller I had not heard of any of these previously so they have been a joy to discover and learn about.  I have looked back through some this morning, and was tempted to choose more, but will see what others pick first! Thank you Dixie and to all who have contributed: it has been an enjoyable and very worthwhile theme, and I look forward to more.
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Lewis Cooper

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Some wonderful work revisited above.  Like most of us I spend time looking at art, the internet is a wondrous thing for that alone.  I look at it for inspiration and that's what this thread is about.  When I'm stuck for what to draw or paint, which is often, I look at art.  Not to copy other's work, just seeing art that interests me is usually enough to get me going.   I've enjoyed all the art featured, obviously some more than others, as is the way of things. An artist I knew of was Andrea Kowch, one of Jenny's picks above.  This thread made me look at her afresh, and I found many new paintings.  Andrea makes the kind of art I like most.  You wonder what on earth is happening, there's a narrative lurking in all her paintings.   She also paints beautifully.  She's called a symbolist, but I see her as a surrealist...there's something unreal happening in her paintings.  And she paints the unreal very realistically.  For me that's surrealism.  Not that labels matter...symbolist...surrealist...or just plain realist...what does it matter?  I like her work. I join in the thanks to Dixie for coming up with this thread, and all the work he puts into it.  No doubt it'll produce a few more 'WOW' artists.
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Any thanks must go to you guys for supporting the thread, without your suggestions and comments it wouldn’t be running . I also would like to thank the artist we feature for there superb artwork, let’s face it if it wasn’t painted we couldn’t see it.  Two more from me first up Frank Mckelvey, and Joe Hush sorry I’ve been a bit greedy with Joe's painting I find then so good . Frank McKelvey. Joe Hush
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Robert Jones, NAPA

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I was in a gallery some time ago, and there was either a painting or a print by Joe Hush - someone superciliously remarked "chocolate-box painting".  I discovered that looks can't kill, since mine ought to have done but didn't.   It just made me think that there are those who believe something can't be good for you unless it tastes vile.
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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You will probably find the person doesn’t paint or know very little about painting , I think it’s sometimes used to hide that the person doesn’t know what else to say. It’s a  very unfortunate comment that just rubbishes the work done ,I unfortunately have occasionally used it but now know better. How did they survive the Jones death stare , they must have been tough characters Robert good job you didn’t tackle them . 
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Helen Martell

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I used to have my paintings in my local pub (sadly they closed recently), and once overheard two couples chatting about one of my pictures. The women were very complimentary, but one of the blokes said something on the lines of ‘you can pick one of those up in the Range for next to nowt’ (it was a picture of a cow). My husband quietly asked me if I’d like him to drag the chap out into the car park… 😂

Jenny Harris

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Another artist I hadn’t come across before we started this thread is the Welsh artist Wilf Roberts.  I really like his bold style and the rugged Welsh landscapes he painted.

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