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Inspiration from Artists Wk 178 Featuring Artists : Rob Barnes and Jackson Lee Nisbit.

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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Welcome to this weeks thread the featuring arts are : Rob Barnes and Jackson Lee Nisbit .  Jenny wil open the week with her introduction to Rob Barnes . On Wednesday I will introduce Jackson Lee Nisbit . 

Jenny Harris

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ROB BARNES trained as a painter and printmaker at the Hull College of Art and Design in the 1960s.  He pursued a career teaching printmaking - including etching, screen printing and linocuts - first at Keswick Hall College, then at the University of East Anglia until he retired. He now works from his studio in Norfolk and has returned to linocutting as he enjoys the physical process of cutting and hand inking.  His linocuts are printed on an Albion Press which was cast in 2013 and is a copy of an 1854 press made by Ulmer.  The modern casting methods have ensured that it is far more accurate than was possible in 1854. His linocuts are inspired mainly by the landscape of East Anglia and by observing the changing fields and wildlife throughout the seasons.  Coastal prints are inspired by Norfolk and Suffolk waterways.   “I enjoy the challenge of cutting lino with a certain freedom in the cutting strokes.  I like nothing better than to let ideas grow as I find shapes and colours in the landscape.  My recent linocuts are inspired by old boats and the debris surrounding them.  I never plan my colour combinations in advance and never know what the colours will be until I start to print.  After the first colour is set down it influences the next colour and so on until I finish the layers of colour with a black.  There must be mystery and surprises in the creation of a linocut.”

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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Stunning work , thanks for introducing him , I look forward to seeing more.
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Marjorie Firth

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So clean and fresh.

Tessa Gwynne

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Totally wonderful, precise and detailed work. His variety of birds are crisply created and an important part of he design. I love the light reflected On the water in the first.  I could cheerfully hang one of these on my wall!
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Lewis Cooper

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Fantastic work.  And I just love that printing press, a work of art in itself.  Must have cost a pretty penny.

Tessa Gwynne

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Indeed, I dread to think what that cost! A few more from me.

Alan Bickley

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I’m really impressed with all of his work!  An exceptional printmaker and fabulously interesting compositions and subjects…  Thanks Jenny 
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Gillian Cooke

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Really beautiful crisp images and his use of colour is great! I would happily give one house room too!

Christine Rogan

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Some beautiful pictures with precise clean lines and lovely colours. I am amazed that these are prints - such skill. 
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Several  I particularly like , of course it’s boats in the main .
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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Wondrous colours - and impact. 
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