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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Welcome to this weeks thread the featuring artist this week are :  Brian Cooke and Bertha Lum,  Andrew will open with his introduction to Brian Cooke a d Wednesday lunchtime Jenny  will introduced us to the artwork of Bertha Lum . I hope you all have a good week and enjoy the artwork of the featured artist.
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Sir Brian Caldwell Cook Batsford (18 December 1910 – 5 March 1991) was an English painter, designer, publisher and  politician. He was born Brian Cook, but after a request from his uncle Harry Batsford he changed his name to his mother's maiden name in 1946. He is especially well known as the designer of book cover dust jackets for Batsford press between the 1930s to the 1950s. I'm sure you will recognise his distinctive style as it has been copied by many (including me).  Upon leaving Repton school in 1928 he joined the design department at B.T. Batsford, a publishing house owned by his uncle Harry . His first dust jacket was produced at the age of 21 for the book "Villages of England". He took over the reigns at Batsford Press in 1952 upon Harry's death.  Because of pressure of running he firm his own art work virtually disappeared from the public eye from around 1950 but was 'rediscovered' some 40 years  later.  He was also interested in politics , being elected as the Tory candidate for South Ealing where he held the seat until 1974 when the seat was abolished. He was knighted in 1974.  There is a short biography of him on Wikipedia : Brian Batsford - Wikipedia  I include here a few pieces I like, but there are many more examples of his work to be found on the internet. Below: Gloucester Cathedral from the dust jacket of "The Cathedrals of England" authored by Charles Batsford and Harry Fry Below: The church is based on the one in the village of Ruardean, Gloucestershire but the scene seems to be imagined. See the image below the Little Moreton Hall picture (below). Below: Corfe Castle Below: Little Moreton Hall used for the cover of "Cheshire" in the Little Guides series.  Below: detail from a scene based on the village of Ruardean, Gloucestershire on the cover of "English Villages and Hamlets" authored by Humphrey Pakington, 1934. 

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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Remove the low life that put spam on this thread . 
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Eternal vigilance, Dixie-Paul-Orang = so long as we chuck 'em off, they don't matter.   I removed twenty or so on the trot the other day - I'm quite sure other moderators would just chuckle indulgently at that, and say twenty?  My boy, you haven't lived.... I suppose we could take it as a compliment, that they recognize our site and wish to infest it?  
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The forum was loaded with spam this morning took a while to remove it .

Jenny Harris

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Had already seen some of Brian Cooke’s work when looking at railway posters.  I do like his style of painting.

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Lovely graphic style which always appeals to me! Yes, railway posters… I have seen some from him! Some fabulous examples already, his approach to Corfe Castle and Cornwall are of particular interest to me. The vista with the single spire church, (first one), with the two figures is outstanding, I’d love to have a go at that one… I wonder where it is… could be from his imagination…

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Yes, I wondered that, Alan. It’s one of his posters from the Come to Britain series - it’s called Come to Britain for Hiking, but none of the images I’ve seen say where it is.   Maybe Andrew will know, but perhaps it’s just, as you say, an imagined scene. 

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If you can’t find it, then it probably is a made up scene Jenny… anyway, it’s fabulous and I wish I was there painting it!
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The vista with the single spire church, (first one), with the two figures is outstanding, I’d love to have a go at that one… I wonder where it is… could be from his imagination…
Alan Bickley on 08/07/2024 07:05:51
All I have is what Jenny said - a post-war poster for British Travel and Holiday Association ("Come to Britain for Hiking") so it could well be made up.  I will update my first post with location info if I find it.  Update: The church is  based on the one in the village of Ruardean, Gloucestershire , but the scene seems to be imagined.  Update 2: Found this online which contains a photo of the church:  Ruardean - Wikipedia

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Tony Auffret

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I have always been intrigued by this railway poster / book jacket style of art.  Here are two (Whitby Abbey and The English Lakes) from his British heritage and Little Guides series. Very different moods.  
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