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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Wellcome to this weeks thread the featuring artists this week are : EH Shepard and Claire McCall. I will ope with the introduction to EH Shepard and on Wednesday  Jenny will  introduce Claire McCall . EH Shepard 1879 - 1976 was a English artist and  illustrator, he is especially known for illustrations of anthropomorphic animals in Wind in The Willows and soft toys in Winne - the -Poo.  Shepard was born in St James Wood London, his father was a architect and his mother was the daughter of William Lee a watercolour artist.  By 1906 he had become a successful illustrator having foroduce the artwork for several books , and whist doing so worked as a illustrator for Punch. There is a very good bio of his life on Wikipedia. I hope you enjoy the artwork.

Alan Bickley

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Wonderful illustrations! Delicate pen drawing at its best, and I absolutely love all the Wind in the Willows characters!

Russell Edwards

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I echo Alan's thoughts, marvellous illustrations, so clean and precise.

Tessa Gwynne

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Wonderful illustrations which bring back great memories of childhood. These are books I grew up with, and then enjoyed reading to my children and grandchildren. They are a great example of how a good author and illustrator marry together to make successful children’s books which stand the test of time. I’m not sure I had seen his wartime work, but that is also very skilful and poignant. Good choice Dixie.

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Jenny Harris

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Love his wonderful illustrations, especially the Winnie the Pooh series.  I use to have a set of Winnie the Pooh mugs, all sadly now broken.
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, NAPA

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I was never keen on Winnie the Pooh - but the drawings were brilliant.  I was more taken by the social comment drawings: he captured Mussolini perfectly; it's one thing to draw a convincing Hitler, in declamation mode, another to represent, in just one sketch, the fear, horror, predicament in which Mussolini found himself, knowing he'd committed himself to a madman and seeing no way out.  As, indeed - there wasn't.  
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Some of his lesser known works, in a way it’s good that he is remembered Wind in the Willows etc .

Sylvia Evans

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Gob smackingly wonderful illustrations.    The best. 
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Andrew Roles

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Terrific work, and lovely to see this selection. His paintings are outstanding, but he’ll always be remembered by me as the man that drew Pooh.  

Tessa Gwynne

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Me too Andrew!  Looking through his work I find it fascinating that he could produce so convincingly and skilfully both the sweetness of his Pooh pictures, and the horrors of war, also the political drawings such as the Bevan above. A brilliant all round artist and I do like the painting of the lady in her garden.
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Jim Morris

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Love paintings with figures and life that tell stories. These surely do. 

Jenny Harris

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Claire McCall is a self-taught Australian artist.  From the age of three she played the violin and any spare time was taken up with music practice. After completing a Business Degree in Marketing, she spent her twenties working as a Brand Manager in the cosmetics industry. In her early thirties, following a chance visit to an art exhibition, she became interested in painting.  The art movement which appealed to her most was Impressionism and she learned from studying those artists which she most admired.  Working hard to improve her composition and technique, her style gradually evolved from carefully painted scenes to a more spontaneous approach using a palette knife. Her style of more abstract backgrounds balanced with fairly realistic yet still impressionistic figures in the foreground developed over time as she learned to create finer detail with a palette knife - initially she could only paint the finer marks required for figures with a brush.  She works in oil on canvas. As her family life doesn’t lend itself to plein air painting, she works from her own photos, usually taken in the morning or late afternoon when colours and shadows are at their best.  She thinks of herself as a painter of light rather than subject, and is especially drawn to beach scenes.  She believes that passion and persistence are the key ingredients to becoming a successful artist.
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