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Inspiration from Artists Wk 123 Featuring Artists are : Brian Cooke and Bertha Lum.

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Russell Edwards

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Charming and very appealing paintings, I have an instant feeling of nostalgia whenever I see work like this.

Alan Bickley

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Thanks Andrew, looks like the same church and spire in particular!
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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I have earmarked a couple of weeks one for record album  sleeves and one for railway posters for August/ September time . Hopefully we will get some more of his posters then along with other well known artists.
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Jim Morris

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Remove the low life that put spam on this thread . 
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Jim Morris

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As Moderator of a football fan site, we once had a clown  attack so bad we had to make half-a dozen trusted members temporary mods to clear it. Small thing and smaller minds. 

Jenny Harris

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BERTHA LUM (1869 - 1954) was an Iowa-born printmaker, painter and illustrator who was best known for her colourful woodblock prints in a style known as Japonisme, a term used to describe the influence of Japanese design on Western art. She studied design at the Institute of Art in Chicago from 1895 to 1900, also taking courses in illustration and stained glass work.  Through one of her tutors she also developed during this time an interest in woodblock printing.  During a visit to Japan in 1903 she searched for a printmaker who could show her the traditional method of woodblock printing, and several years later in 1907 she returned for an extended stay when she learned to cut blocks, and worked alongside a woodblock printer. In 1922 she moved to China to learn Chinese woodcut methods, and for the next 30 years divided her time between California, China and Japan.  (In 1912 she had been the only female artist to exhibit at the Tokyo International Exhibition.)  During the Great Depression she made a comfortable living selling prints and illustrating books, newspapers and magazines.  She produced her last known print in 1935.  Information on her woodblock printing techniques can be found at bertha-lum.org.

Tessa Gwynne

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Beautiful and very stylish work Jenny. I especially like the way she uses yellow for light and her parasols. Also her birds are superb. I will look further. 

Sylvia Evans

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How beautiful  I seem to know some of these paintings.   Interesting Western influence on an Oriental artist,
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Thank for the introduction to this beautiful artwork Jenny , like Sylvia I too feel I know some of the paintings but don’t know how. 
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Andrew Roles

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Love the treatment of trees and plants especially the trees with snow. 
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Lewis Cooper

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I like Brian Cooke's work, but the standout image for me is the Cornwall poster...an absolute beauty.  But then I like posters. Bertha Lum is much more to my taste.  In particular, the third and fourth paintings in Jenny's selection.   What an artist!
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Jim Morris

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Being a lover of Oriental at, Bertha Lum's work is lovely and very much to my taste.
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