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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Welcome to this week Inspiration thread the featuring artists this week are : Lucy Davies and Sean Briggs Jenny with start the ball rolling with her introduction to Lucy Davies on Wednesday I will introduce Sean Briggs. Have a good week keep well and safe, enjoy the artwork.

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Jenny Harris

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LUCY DAVIES trained at St. Martins and Brighton and has a BA (Hons) in graphic design, specialising in illustration.  She has always enjoyed painting, but it wasn’t until her children left home that she found time to fully concentrate on her passion, and now paints full time from her studio at home in North London or at her little caravan on the cliffs in North Cornwall where she has spent every summer since childhood. The beautiful and sometimes wild Cornish coastline is the inspiration for her colourful mixed media paintings.  A keen walker, she always takes her sketchbook with her to record new images so she has plenty of inspiration in the cold winter months.  Colour, pattern and texture are the dominant elements of her mixed media work and she uses a process of layering acrylic media to create the effect she wants.  An underpainting or tonal wash will be overlaid with later upon layer of paint or ink, then some areas scraped or washed off.  She will usually carefully plan a painting so that once she starts she can work quickly and spontaneously adding finer details later if required. .

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With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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Fine choice - an artist well worth investigating further.  
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Marjorie Firth

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Very joyful.I like them.

Tessa Gwynne

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Fantastic work Jenny, great composition of coastal paths etc, what’s not to like! Marjorie is right, joyful is a good description. I love the movement, colour and feel of summertime, and will also investigate further. 

Norrette Moore

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Bright and colourful.  Would be very welcoming on the wall on a grey winters day.
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Carol .

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To choose one would be the last one, but they are all very attractive. 
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Tony Auffret

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There is something very fresh about her work that makes the bright colours work. This one caught my eye.
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Hilary Forbes

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These paintings by Lucy Davies are very colourful, but not garish, and are of a subject she knows and loves - I think they're gorgeous and yes joyful, and uplifting. I will certainly be investigating further.
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Lewis Cooper

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Beautiful vibrant paintings.  I like the way she paints areas of grass and sand in almost abstract patches of colour...yet it works perfectly.
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Robert Jones, Napa

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What I like about her work - well, there are quite a few reasons, but the primary one is this wonderful impression she gives of peeking through foliage, grasses, twigs: that's how we so often see the countryside around us - very few of us paint it like that: I'm guilty of doing a bit of gardening in landscapes, though try to avoid it; sometime succeed.  But she gets it right, without any hint of fussiness and over-painting.  I'd like to take lessons, please!  I've been impressed by a lot of recent postings, but perhaps by this one most of all - of course, alternative views are available, but for me this is what painting should be about.  

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So beautiful,  how on earth does she paint like that. I want to paint foliage like that. Fabulous artist.
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