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Inspiration from Artists Week 65 Featuring Artists Rowland Hilder and Alphonse Mucha.

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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Welcome to this week Inspiration fro Artists , this week the featuring artists are :  Rowland Hilder and Alphonse Mucha . Alan will open with his introduction to Rowland Hilder and on Wednesday Lewis will present Alphonse Mucha . I hoe you have a good week and enjoy the chosen artists work.

Alan Bickley

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Rowland Hilder OBE PRI RSMA 1905 - 1993 Think Rowland Hilder, and most of us think of Kent and his wonderful paintings of oast houses! But he also painted some fabulous nautical scenes including those historic and very painterly Thames barges. I love his strong use of tonal values, coupled with his clever use of counterchange, both of which gave him such a distinctive style. He illustrated numerous books, including classics such as Treasure Island and Moby Dick. I had the privilege of attending his only masterclass at Blackheath art college in 1985, Blackheath was where he lived with his wife Edith, also an accomplished artist! A truly wonderful person and I learned so much from him during those two days.  He was 80 years old and worked tirelessly for the two days, sharing his techniques and working up numerous ink and wash sketches and watercolours! I’ve sorted out a few lesser known examples, including two limited edition etchings which are in my personal collection, I hope you enjoy them! Unfortunately quite a few I’d selected are invalid file! I’d picked out some really interesting ones as well… damn!

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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Thank you Alan for you introduction, you certainly have opened my eyes I have never thought of Hilder as a maritime artist before always associated him with landscapes . I have found some excellent paintings of ships, barges and just sea views , some I have seen before but I nor associated them with Hilder some are ones I’ve admired will teach me to look more carefully at the signatures. Some I particularly like . I
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Tony Auffret

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I think there was a time when if you borrowed a book on how to paint from your local library, it was inevitably a Rowland Hilder and then he seemed to just disappear.  Such a shame for some-one who had quite an influence on quite a lot of us.  I always felt his trees in winter were almost a trademark.

Tessa Gwynne

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Another superb artist. Alan, when you find you have an invalid file message, usually if you crop it very slightly you can then upload. 

Jenny Harris

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Or, take a screen shot of it, then crop before posting. I find this always works.
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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I use the screen shot as Jenny described, works every time  in fact I think you told me about it Jenny. 
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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Ahh!  So good to see these again - Hilder surely must have been an example to so many of us: in his wonderful books, too, he explained so much about his methods, his frustrations, his materials and colours: why the HELL did I sell his books from my collection before I moved?  Well, because they were so collectable at the time: I made a very good profit on them, but I wish I had them now.  

Denise Cat

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I recognised his Faversham paintings, having done a couple of Alan's demonstrations. What I didn't realise about Hilder, was that, he was more than landscapes and his work was very varied throughout his career. I have to say, I loved his painting called Moored near the Prospect of Whitby, Paul has already posted this painting. Here are a selection, some that I was surprised to find and others I liked very much. The Print Workshop. The Land Girl. Kentish Sheep Farm in Winter. Unity of Strength, Second World War. Faversham.

Jenny Harris

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Really interesting artist - was aware of the name, but hadn’t seen much of his work.  I like the style of this one - reminds me of the work of John Nash.

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Lewis Cooper

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Anyone with any interest in art, and growing up in the 1950/60s would have been aware of Rowland Hilder.  He was everywhere.  Back then most trains still had the wonderful railway posters in the carriages.  I think that's where I first got his name. Back then I was much taken with book illustration and poster art, I could hardly fail to be impressed by Rowland Hilder. A wonderful artist.  Had my interest in  art taken me along the landscape route, I would have wanted to paint just like him.  Still do, I suppose, since he can do everything.

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Some wonderful examples of his work, I’ve always loved his railway posters, two great examples posted by Lew. Just look at the density of tonal values in that first one… virtually black shadows!
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