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Inspiration from Artists week 55: Ian MacCulloch and Pratim Das.
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Wellcome to this weeks Inspiration from Artists the featuring artists , this week are . Ian MacCullock and Pratim Das. Jenny will open up with her introduction to Ian MacCullock and on Wednesday Robert will introduce use to the artwork of Pratim Das . Have a good week and pease let me have name for the list .
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I have a Pratim Das original - and a little surprise (I hope). I look forward to showing those, and somewhere here I've got one of his books - there will be a fevered search for it before Wednesday - I should perhaps say that at a rough count, I have approaching 2,000 books, and it can be a bit of a challenge to find one of them on demand.... You now know why I try not to move house very often - my last move was funded by a book sale, and I've been slowly buying them back over the last 22 years: the thought of moving them all .... I don't want to!
You'll enjoy Pratim - and can find him online if you'd like to.
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Ian MacCulloch is a British printmaker. He studied at Northampton School Art and works in a variety of printmaking techniques but especially enjoys the graphic qualities presented by etching and woodcutting. Many of his prints are hand-coloured to increase vibrancy and atmosphere.
His work encompasses a wide variety of subject matter and inspiration often comes from landscapes observed in the evening or early morning . Trees feature heavily in his work and most of his landscape etchings are inked on the plate allowing him to experiment with colour, creating mood and atmosphere.
A large part of his work is devoted to wildlife, especially hares and birds, mostly produced as lino/woodcut or drypoint.
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Excellent introduction Jenny and some terrific artwork chosen , I will have a good look at his work tomorrow.
Robert you must live in a big house or have very little space, you have nearly as many books a a small public library.
Certainly more than some bookshop, I love browsing around old book shops .
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Wonderful prints, and I love that looking full-on hare. (Dixie = my flat is so crammed with books and unsold paintings that it's almost impossible to fall down in it; the sadly late Derek - or was it Dennis? I have a shocking memory for names - Snowden is the only one of our POL tribe who has ever ventured inside, and I think his very first word was "Blimey!", followed by "have you read all these?"
To which of course the answer was "not all; not yet". He did venture to ponder that I might not live long enough; and I begin to fear he might have been right. Still - "always have something to read", has always been my motto. And if nothing else, they do make good insulation.)
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I can understand that Robert I have a real passion for books, I do believe it come from being dyslexic. As a child I did not have a book simply because I was unable to read them so made do with comics like the Beano, Dandy etc. I was very lucky to meet a ex navy man who took the time to teach me when I was twelve, he absolutely adored reading and had hundreds of books.
Once the bug bit well let’s say I’ve bought hundred and hundreds , some were given away unread , I still buy books but do stick to art , and other things that interest me , I have about ten unread at the moment. And I Don’t take the Beano anymore such a shame.
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Oh, the Beano! And Topper - both staples of my childhood. I used to consume - and I do mean that word - those little magazines with stories, I can't quite think how else to describe them: they were cheap, but fantastically well illustrated - based on Dick Turpin, Robin Hood, Ivanhoe, war comics (I even met one of their illustrators, named Gordon Brunt - he made, he told me, almost nothing for his wonderful drawings, in pen and ink: presumably, D C Thompson published them, who were notoriously mean with their artists).
There was a pocket-sized publication - I THINK in the Dick Turpin series - about a character (burglar and murderer) named Creepy Crawley - fabulously well-drawn in ink: I would do just short of murder to find that again - it really kindled my interest in drawing, it was so good (and of course: the story appealed). If anyone has a copy, dangle it before me and find my wallet open - these artists were so unappreciated it's almost a crime.
Anyway, Creepy Crawly - if you find such a title, tempt me with it! I am bound to succumb.
As for bookshops - if you ever come to the Isle of Wight, there's a marvellous fire-hazard of a shop in Ryde High Street which has three (or four?) floors of mostly out of print books - I daren't enter too often, or I should bankrupt myself; it's my ambition to live and die there, smothered by the aroma of old leather, cloth, and paper.
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I've been looking through these pics again, and growing ever more impressed. Oddly it's the landscapes that appeal the most. Odd because I'm not really a landscape person when it comes to making pictures. I particularly like this one...shown earlier...
...I'd love to produce a landscape half as good as this.
It's great how these discussions digress. Bookshops are a delight, words and often pictures in the perfect format. Books...one of mankind's greatest achievements...far, far better to read from the page than from a device. The shop that Robert mentions on the Isle of Wight sounds great. There used to be another den of delight in the same street, a small museum about Donald McGill the postcard artist. It was there I saw for the first time some of his original works...about A4 size, in watercolour and gouache. A wonderful, unexpected treasure trove that I stumbled into. A few years back now. Hope it's still there.
...I'd love to produce a landscape half as good as this.
It's great how these discussions digress. Bookshops are a delight, words and often pictures in the perfect format. Books...one of mankind's greatest achievements...far, far better to read from the page than from a device. The shop that Robert mentions on the Isle of Wight sounds great. There used to be another den of delight in the same street, a small museum about Donald McGill the postcard artist. It was there I saw for the first time some of his original works...about A4 size, in watercolour and gouache. A wonderful, unexpected treasure trove that I stumbled into. A few years back now. Hope it's still there.