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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Welcome to Week 62  the featuring artists this week are : Martin Proctor and Tristram Hillier. Jenny will start of the week with her introduction to Martin Proctor and on Wednesday I will present Tristram Hillier. I hope you have a good week and enjoy the artwork. 

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Martin Procter was born in Yorkshire in 1942 and moved to Devon in 1956.  After a career in building and architecture he became a full time artist in 1997 and was soon established as one of the West Country’s leading contemporary artists. He is self taught and his work reflects his long-held interests in man’s mark on the landscape, and a passion for remote hill country and wild places - Dartmoor, where he lives, the Celtic margins of Britain, and further afield in Atacama, Arizona, Nepal, and the Polar regions. He has his own very distinctive approach to his work, with an emphasis on form and structure.  The late John Blockley, the famous Cotswold artist, has been a strong influence.  He paints mostly in watercolour and acrylics, although also in oils, together with mixed media on canvas.  

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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Thank you Jenny for your excellent introduction, you can certainly see the Blockley influence. I need to look at more of his work as I like some but still not too sure of bit of it. 
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I like the flattened look of some of the landscapes, it makes a change from the many conventional landscapes we've seen in this thread.  It's always interesting to see work where the artist has a different take on things.  As I see them these paintings are all moving towards abstract, especially in the last two shown above.  I don't pretend to understand abstract art, I think it has to stand on it's own without explanation for know-nothings like me.  I especially like the second but last image, which I'm seeing as abstract with some recognisable features in it.  So I'm finding his work interesting.  It's another good pick.
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George Cutter

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I really like these very much. Never heard of him before but I find everything about these paintings to my liking. Thanks for putting his name forward.

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Another really good artist with fascinating results. I feel we have seen similar work from a few others in recent months but his are very appealing to look at. I will look him up. I very much like his harbour scenes. Thanks Jenny.

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A couple more……

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I've encountered him before, and seen work derived from his - some of it I like greatly, some of it not so much.  I think the stronger the colour, the more convincing the work - I wish I could remember other artists who work in a similar style; Blockley, of course, but others too - my memory is a bit wobbly these days, short-term anyway.  Long term, mind!  Oh yes - if you did something horribly embarrassing 60 years ago, I'd remember that all right! Take note, there, some of you.... I like the third one down, in the first posting, very much - I am a bit ambivalent about the others; it's a bit unfair to make critical remarks about an artist's work, when he didn't invite us to show it; so - I think I won't. 

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Different, interesting  but not sure l. The two landscapes appeal.

Jenny Harris

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Robert, another painter whose work is similar in style is Michael Morgan - we looked at his work earlier in this series. And maybe Moira Huntly as well.

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I find his work really interesting Jenny, yes, I like it very much.
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Robert Jones, NAPA

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Jenny - yes, Michael Morgan: many thanks for the reminder - strong work, good to revisit it.  
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