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With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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Alan, you're a paragon of virtue - now what are you? - a paragon.  Of virtue.  Yes, I'd be very happy to pass this task on to you.  While writing in reply - I went on YouTube earlier and, speaking of Alan Owen as I was, saw his latest there.  If one wants to learn - well, he's the man to go to.  Alan is around the 90 years old mark now: bemoaning that he can't paint a straight line: I can exclusively reveal that his lines are much straighter than mine, and he can give me 20 years. 

Alan Bickley

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That’s sorted then, I’ll take Steve Hall… Paul, if you can put my name on him please!
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Will do Alan . 
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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Delighted for Alan to take this on.  Kids - that's all of us, basically!  - what do we think of Wesson's blues?  I can certainly see reduced pthalo blue in there, but - would I be a million miles away in suspecting that he occasionally used Prussian Blue as well?  It COULD be Pthalo - but well dammit: I just don't think it is......... 

Alan Bickley

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This is my original Wesson, Pen and wash, titled ‘Spritsail Barges at Pin Mill’ on the reverse. Best pic I can get I’m afraid, reflecting off the glass, but you can get the general impression.

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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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I do believe I’ve turned green Alan, what a superb painting to have on your wall and look at regularly.  He certainly had the ability to make these wonderful old boats  look good and easy to draw , paint etc , seeing his work looking so simple is a trap that I fell into when I first started to paint.  I have just read a superb biography about him , it said that he was a prolific artist who would do four paintings in the morning and cut the grass in the afternoon.  I have developed a habit of using a mix of all the colours in the pallet I’m using interesting that he did the same and referred to the colour as “Filth” it probably the only similarity to his work that I will ever achieve .

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Alan Bickley

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Yes Paul, it’s an absolute beauty… you can’t beat seeing his work up close, not particularly refined in any way, but has that all important impact factor!
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Robert Jones, Napa

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A wonderful thing to own. I'd show the family Rembrandt - but there's just one trifling snag....
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I’ve got a Rembrandt and a Stradivarius…..but Rembrandt made rubbish violins and Stradivarius couldn’t paint for toffee…..ba boom!
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Lewis Cooper

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Toulouse Lautrec.   When I find an artist like this, his story interests me as much as his art.  It's a tragic story, yet he seems to have been an amiable friendly young man, liked by his peers and dedicated to his art.  I made a slideshow some time back for my own interest.  What follows is some of those pictures. Lautrec spent months in the brothels, often staying for weeks at a time.  The women liked him, he listened to their problems and became a confidant.  He produced many paintings there, often quite intimate.  He said, 'Painting models is like painting a stuffed owl, these women are real.' There is a wealth of information about Toulouse Lautrec.  Art, photographs, and the things he said and wrote...here are a few of his quotes.... I find his work fascinating, I don't like all of it...for me, that goes for all the artists I admire,  but so much of Toulouse Lautrec's art is inspirational.  He brought his time alive, and for anyone interested in art it was a fascinating time and place.  Photography was booming, there are many photographs of his time and the people who lived through them...yet Toulouse Lautrec's art seems more real than photographs.

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I’ve got a Rembrandt and a Stradivarius…..but Rembrandt made rubbish violins and Stradivarius couldn’t paint for toffee…..ba boom!
Marjorie Firth on 13/06/2023 15:15:35
No joke told 'til it's ten years old.

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Excellent intro. Lewis.  I’ve always been a fan of his work, especially his posters, and already knew a little of his background and lifestyle.  Your comprehensive intro. was full of interesting details.  I like his quotes.

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