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Inspiration from Artists Wk 140 Featuring Artists : Marianne North and Naomi Tydeman

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Carol .

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She died far too young if those dates are right - but packed a huge amount of very fine work into the years in which she was active.
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Marianne past away on 30 August 1890, and was buried in a quiet churchyard at Alderley, aged fifty-nine years. A hardy and robust, gentlewoman.
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A portrait of Marianne aged twenty-four, painted by Sir William John Newton.
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An accomplished botanical artist that also painted her chosen subjects within their environment. Her background landscapes are beautiful. The Coral Mountains in the distance. Part of an inflorescence of a banana with a species of Ipomoea and amethyst woodstar birds. I did a study of this many years ago.   A view of Lake Donner, Sierra Nevada.

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I love this painting of an African baobab. in the Princess's garden, South India. A bold study of fruits grown in the Seychelles.
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Moving on from Marianne North to a very different style of painting . Naomi Tydeman , is a British watercolours artist the winner of the 2013 Turner Watercolour Prize. Naomi is a self taught artist who paints in watercolour winning awards at national level . She opened  The Naomi Tydeman gallery in Tenby in 1998, the natural beauty of Pembrokeshire provides much of the inspiration for her work whilst travels  around the world have formed the subjects for many solo exhibitions in London, Italy and France . I will use a her own words to describe her attraction and attitude to watercolours painting , “ Watercolour never ceases to amaze me. It’s unpredictability, spontaneous, independent , adamant and wilfulness , you have to be in a state of extreme alertness , to make snap decisions, take risks, to not be afraid to lose something. To take what’s given and work with it . To let. To watch. To be ever present “. This quote was made in 2024. I hope you enjoy my selection of her artwork.
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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Different indeed, but superlatively skilful - skill can perhaps override the impact of a painting sometimes: you find yourself admiring the technique, but not really enjoying the picture.  That's absolutely not the case here - hard to pick the stand-outs (they ALL stand out) but the snow scene by moonlight is staggeringly good, and I don't know how she's achieved that effect; the tunnel of trees and foliage reminds me of so many walks here on the Isle of Wight, though I know it's not a painting of the IW; and the sea painting with rocks, the marsh, the mud-flats - all brilliant.  You've found some truly inspiring artists over the last year or so, of whom I wouldn't have been aware in the case of the younger ones anyway, and I think you'll find it hard to beat this one!  Though - I know it's not a competition, and we're not comparing them against each other. It does make you realize how very difficult it must be to run actual competitions, though - I shall be less critical of judging I disagree with in future, I think.
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

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PS - A friend suggests the snow painting by moonlight might have been helped along by a touch of alcohol with the paint - he didn't mean the painter drank it...  Real watercolourists, of whom I am not one, may have a view about that?  
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Another great 'find' Paul ( well for me as I wasn't aware of her). She is as Robert says, 'superlatively skilful' and her work is wonderful. Having said that, I'm not sure about the figure and dog in painting 6, I understand why they're there but they jar on me a little.

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Agree with the others, Paul, an excellent watercolour artist.  I especially like the bottom half of your selection.  I wasn’t aware of her work before, either.
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Another selection of her paintings .

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Of your first selection Dixie, I like the first, fifth (the path through the trees) and sixth, and I have no idea how anyone could do the latter in watercolour! While I appreciate her undoubted skills with watercolour (I wouldn’t know where to start) they don’t excite me at all. Sorry!
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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To close with some more of her world .
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