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Russell Edwards

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She's a fantastic artist Paul, the way she paints hands is just incredible!
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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It was the hands more than anything that made me take a better look at her work Russell , they are incredible so beautifully painted, I had to look her up as I was convinced they were photos. 
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Lewis Cooper

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Astonishing work.
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Marjorie Firth

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I’m a fan too!

Tessa Gwynne

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Certainly a brilliant artist, but as a person the “wrong side” of seventy I found looking at so many all together rather depressing!

Jenny Harris

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My thoughts are exactly the same as Tessa’s.

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Alan Bickley

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Talented, but not a subject that excites me, in fact the opposite… I concur with the girls above!
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Lewis Cooper

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I take the point, but I also think older faces can be interesting to draw and paint.

Tessa Gwynne

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Definitely true Lew. Just a few too many viewed in one go, reminded me of visiting my mum when she was in an OP home! 
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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I can’t find any paintings she had done of young people, maybe her thing is to paint older people , I personally think it offers more of a challenge. Her work is fascinating and I do like how she works but I wouldn’t want one on my wall , looking at the  hand would be like looking at my own  and that’s bad enough. 
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Russell Edwards

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The aged being somewhat ageist? If she painted old men I wonder if views would differ? 
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Robert Jones, Napa

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They all look as if they've been very laboriously (though very skilfully) copied from still photographs of her subjects - and indeed, she says as much.  I appreciate her motivation in steering away from the perpetual lure of youth, but the photo-realist approach doesn't appeal to me no matter how well done it may be.  Presumably she does other work  - perhaps a little further from the cusp of the grave.....  Her depiction of aged skin,  though, is very (and rather distressingly) accurate; number two down is of an impressive matriarch, the last but one a very telling observation of frailty along with  the determination to remain interested in the world; and in all cases, her treatment of fabrics is brilliantly achieved.    But I'm over 70 too - perhaps it's a bit too close to home for comfort; not, I think, that comfort was something she had any wish to give.  
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