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Inspiration From Artists Wk 173 - featuring Robert Tavener and Peter Barker
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Nothin you did , the system is quite sensitive to words that could be considered spam and put it in a queue for the moderators to decide if it not definitely spam. It can be frustrating but it’s reduced the amount we were get to virtually zero , we don’t get to see all the stuff removed fortunately prior to the technicians developing the system we had several hundred a day at one point.
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Just to finish and before I post my personal Robert Tavener story here are just a few more. 
Here is my personal Robert Tavener tale.
When I was at school and about 14 years old I had a painting in the Towner Art gallery in Eastbourne and I believe (it's an awful long time ago 1965) because of this I was invited to a Saturday class at the Art College along with other young artists from other schools. Well at this age I knew so much more than most adults (apart from my Dad), so when the tutor got us ripping up bits of tissue paper to make a collage, I was extremely put out. In my head this was not the fine art I thought we would be doing. I was not about to waste my Saturdays on this. Hence, I did not go back. I was going to be a dancer and artist. ( became a dancer). Years And years later I saw the photo of Robert Tavener and I'm pretty sure it was him. Can't say for definite, but I'm pretty certain!
I've enjoyed doing this introduction to Robert Tavener, apart from a few virgin mistakes, which Jenny kindly smoothed out for me.
Here is my personal Robert Tavener tale.
When I was at school and about 14 years old I had a painting in the Towner Art gallery in Eastbourne and I believe (it's an awful long time ago 1965) because of this I was invited to a Saturday class at the Art College along with other young artists from other schools. Well at this age I knew so much more than most adults (apart from my Dad), so when the tutor got us ripping up bits of tissue paper to make a collage, I was extremely put out. In my head this was not the fine art I thought we would be doing. I was not about to waste my Saturdays on this. Hence, I did not go back. I was going to be a dancer and artist. ( became a dancer). Years And years later I saw the photo of Robert Tavener and I'm pretty sure it was him. Can't say for definite, but I'm pretty certain!
I've enjoyed doing this introduction to Robert Tavener, apart from a few virgin mistakes, which Jenny kindly smoothed out for me.
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Thank Julie you have done a great job, it can be very daunting as I said before, hope it’s encouraging you to do another artist for us . Just let me know any artist that you would like to introduce.
A different selection of his work from me , watercolours some very nice work online , I think his printing was more popular.
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The second from the bottom is of Lewes and i lived nearby up until 11 years ago. I've never actually seen these watercolours. They are rather nice I think.
Thank you for asking me to do more introductions I will have a think and run some names by you some time to see if suitable and not been done before.
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I think I see why his prints were more popular - some of the washes in the watercolours are so crudely applied that - well, I could have done them... the worst of them is the fourth from the bottom, but I'm not at all sure he didn't have a problem with the sky in the topmost one (of Paul's recent selection) and did his best to rescue it: I suppose it's a tree in deep shadow, in fact - but it looks, to me, like a botch. Of course it could be quite deliberate, but.... again, it's the sort of thing I've done, and in my case it certainly wasn't deliberate.
I have sympathy for Julie's decision to leave an art class when she discovered collage was involved - I suppose it IS a prejudice of mine, but I've never cared for it as a method; even though I know very well that some here are extremely adept with it, and produce some pictures of real merit; which I never have, and perhaps that's the problem (but in fairness - I like to be fair to myself! - I've never tried).
I should add that Tavener was a fine draughtsman and print-maker; the two final watercolours ... well, they hit my jaundiced and rheumy eye more favourably, but in the last one again - you have the delicate drawing of the tree and buildings, the well-painted sky, and then - that foreground wash which looks like neat Yellow Ochre scrubbed on in horizontal slashes - almost as if he'd just got tired of it: I'm surprised, that's all - don't want to be over-critical, and perhaps others won't see it in the same way, but .... well, there it is.
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I had never seen these watercolours before and after reading your post and looking properly I agree they do look in places like he had got fed up. The yellow ochre especially. I do like the one above as is so familiar a road to me in my past. But he was a fine printmaker. I'm surprised they survived s he destroyed an awful lot of work it seems.Im glad Paul found them though.
I have done collage at times in my life and enjoyed the process, but at 14 it felt like I was back at infants school, and being I was 14 going on 30 I was having non of it. The memory made me smile.
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Something a bit different to end the week, my choice of artist this week is :
Peter Barker.
Oxfordshire born Peter is known for his depiction of Britains beautiful landscape , and equally recognised for his life like portrayal of wild life and domestic animals.
Peter paints using oils, pastels and watercolours, he paints both en plein air for small panels of oil or in his studio for larger works , paintings are worked up from his own photographs . For oils Peter doesn’t sketch out the composition but rather goes in with a brush then scrubs in the darks and works up the layers , mostly using fast drying acrylic oils.
For pastels hehe sketches out in charcoal and for watercolours in pencil before applying the slabs of colour and washes respectively.
Peter still gets a kick out of people buying his painting even after 35 years as a professional artist.
I hope you enjoy my selection of his work.
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by Paul (Dixie) Dean
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It’s always pleasure introducing new artists, especially when you have recently discovered there work and immediately it’s had a positive impact on you . He is one of the artists whose work I can sit and look at for ages and find interesting things within the painting , amazing detail without being over the top makes it pleasant to look at.