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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Welcome to week 86 of Inspiration from Artis this week’s featured artists are : Mary Carlton and Ronald Searle.  Jenny will ope with her introduction to Mary Carlton and on Wednesday Lewis will introduce the artwork of Ronald Searle. I hope you enjoy the artwork selected and do please feel free to comment as it certainly bring in a lot of information , other options and promotes discussions.

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Jenny Harris

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MARY CARLTON (1932 - 2013) was an American artist who graduated from Art College in Los Angeles in 1955 with a degree in fashion illustration.  She was career oriented and determined to pursue a career as an illustrator in a decade when women were expected to forgo work for child rearing. After graduating she was hired by department stores which used her illustrations to advertise women’s fashion.  Illustrators worked from live models hired by the stores, but in the mid-1970s photography began to replace illustration, and by the 1980s fashion artists were reduced to drawing illustrations for pattern books.  A decade later she joined a group of watercolour artists where she applied her design skills to fine art, painting semi-abstracted female figures.  “I take straight on figures and fracture them.  I use the female figure for exploring shapes, colour and design.” Her colour fields are built from unified palettes of complementary colours, and her paintings are a combination of watercolour and acrylic on canvas.  She is also known for her modernist landscapes.

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Just bringing this one back up ……..
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Thanks Jenny for the introduction,I will have a closer look at her work later today.
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Tony Auffret

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Jagged is the word that comes to mind about these.  Although I do find the third one down, the mainly blue with red, quite interesting, the 'in your face' yellows and oranges are too aggressive.  Not to my taste or for my walls.

Tessa Gwynne

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She certainly has a distinctive and interesting style. I like some and will look her up. Thanks Jenny.
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Martin Cooke

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I like the 6th one (red trees/sage green background). The third is pretty good too. I think many of the others would work better as fully abstract paintings eg by removing the facial details, otherwise I feel they occupy an uncomfortable middle ground. Thanks for posting -- good to see something a bit different.
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Robert Jones, NAPA

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I could happily live with some of those - not all.  The landscapes are appealing, as are some of the figure paintings, in particular the first and third from the top.   Yet again, I'm amazed by the number of painters of whom one simply hasn't ever heard before .... puts us all in our place a bit, doesn't it......

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Lewis Cooper

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I like painters who see and paint things differently.  Very interesting work.
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Helen Martell

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An interesting style. Not to everyone’s taste I think, but I like them. Particularly the trees
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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I find her work quite hard to look at as it seems to move about, I realise it my eye sight but it makes it difficult to judge her work. A few I came across whilst looking at her work today. If I’ve duplicated I’m sorry bug as I said find it difficult to focus .
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Martin Cooke

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I get some movement too (though not too much and for me it is part of the allure of this art style). But I think some of the reproductions are not of the best quality. Some seem to have compression artefacts, and those might be causing some movement. Another thing that can cause movement is when pairs of adjacent complementary colours have similar values.
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