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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Welcome to this weeks thread the featuring artists for this week are : Daria Lavrova and Edward Henry Potthast.  Jenny will open with her introduction to  Daria Lavrova on Wednesday I will introduce Edward Henry Potthast .

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Jenny Harris

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DARIA LAVROVA (1980) is a Dutch graphic artist and illustrator currently living in Amsterdam.  She originally graduated from St. Petersburg University of Law in Russia and, after working as a lawyer for several years, decided to pursue her passion for painting, initially illustrating children’s books.  She started working in coloured pencils and chalk and later graduated to oils and watercolour, then linocuts. Her artistic style is based on the tradition of analytical drawing and is influenced by Cubism.  Urban and industrial themes are her major source of inspiration and her work focuses on perspectives, grids and geometric shapes and lines, sometimes breaking into pure abstraction.  She works using various techniques, from pencil on paper to colourful, multilayered lino prints which often depict abandoned industrial sites.  These focus on the architectural aspects of the scenes, and she works with semi-transparent layers of colour, her linocuts closely resembling the characteristics of watercolour painting. Paintings Linocuts

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Sandra Kennedy

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Thank-you Jenny for your usual excellent introduction, and interesting selection of paintings. Quite an unusual style, but one that I like.

Alan Bickley

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What a talent… as a fan of industrial landscapes, these are inspirational. And those Lino cuts are equal to anything I’ve seen!
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Tony Auffret

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What a great find, it's a pity more works seem hard to find on the internet.
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John Graham Inkson

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Super, it’s dynamic work!
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Jenny you have found a superb artist for this week , I echo everything that’s been said about her work.  It’s all beautifully drawn , I know we talk about line need not be perfectly straight, but it’s because they are that her work is so good. 
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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I particularly like the last  one shown, but they're all good.  Straight lines  are important in this sort of work: insofar as it is a genre, the artist needs to work within it, to produce that hard-edged, powerful result. Wobbly lines are fine for more whimsical landscapes, but if you're going to tackle the industrial scene - AND make it beautiful, which takes some doing - you've got to get your statement right; and  she does!
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Carol .

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Couldn't agree more, Robert. The sixth post is a dynamic vista.
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Marjorie Firth

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I really like the 2nd and the 6th.
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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I was just about to start writing my introduction and suddenly realised we had seen Tom Clough a short while ago, foolishly I was thrown as the last time he was introduced as Thomas Clough , fortunately I realised an here is a very quick change of artist. Edward Henry Potthast, 1857 to 1927 was an American impressionist artist born in Ohio. He started studying art in 1870 at thecMcMicken School in Cincinnati, in 1873 he began working at Storbrige Lithographic  Company . Until the ade of thirty nine Potthast earned a living as a lithographer, the purchase of ont of his paintings by the Cincinnati Museum of Art may have encouraged him to abandon lithography for a career in fine art. On arrival in New York he started working as an illustrator and exhibited at them National Academy of Design and the Society of American Artists . By 1900 he was working from a studio in the Gainsborough Building, thereafter painting sun soaked images of Central Park,  the anew England landscape and Long Island Beach. Apologies for the sudden change, I hope you enjoy his artwork and fined some additional ones on line .

Tessa Gwynne

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What wonderful work Dixie, and appropriate for the weather we are having! I really like his style, use of colour and light. Will look him up.
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