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Inspiration from Artists Wk 183 Featuring Artists . Rod Willis and Marie Bracquemond

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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Welcome to this weeks thread , I will be posting a new list of featuring artist in the coming week.  My two artist this week are very different in their style of work ,  My first artist is Rod Willis , on Wednesday I will introduce the work of Marie Bracquemond The Information about Rod is taken directly from his website, hope he doesn’t mind my cutting and pasting. 

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Alan Bickley

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I particularly like the atmosphere that he’s achieved in the final posting… 
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Lewis Cooper

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Yet another very fine artist.  I admire them all, in particular the third from the bottom.

Jenny Harris

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Very atmospheric - I especially like the last one.

Tessa Gwynne

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I like the misty effect he creates. As Heather says his work is very atmospheric. Burning Time, Lewes  Floyer Farm Sunrise.

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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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The last one posted by Tessa is superb the sky reminds me of Turners work . 
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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The more I see of his work the more I want to see and feel quite inspired.
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Marie Bracquemond 1840-1916, was a French Impressionist , and one of four notable women in the Impressionist movement along with Mary Cassatt, Berth Morisot and Eva Gonzales. Marie studied drawing as a child and began showing her work at the Paris Salon when she was still an adolescent. She never underwent formal art training but she received limited tuition from Jean Auguste Dominique Ingles and advise from Paul Gauguin which contributed to her stylish approach. Interestingly her omission from books etc is sometime attributed to her husband artist Frlix Bracquemond. Although Felx participated with impressionist exhibitions, he notably disapproved of the movement at which his wife excelled. Pierre Bracquemond their son stated that his father was jealous of Marie’s work, he belittled her ambition and refused to show her paintings to visitors. I hope you enjoy my selection of her work 
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Lewis Cooper

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I was aware of Cassatt and Morisot, but not this lady.  Sounds like her husband was a jerk.  She's painting the everyday life of her world, and I think her work is pleasing.

Tessa Gwynne

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I have to agree with Lew on all points! I wonder how many other good female artists were kept under the radar or just not allowed to paint. I find her work pleasant, skilful and warm both in colour and feeling. 
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Marjorie Firth

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I like the pencil sketches particularly. Or is the last one an etching? The hand seems a little small….small point.

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

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I love the drawing of the artist looking dubiously at her canvas - I'm sure I often look like that... minus the frock, of course.  Interesting point about the hands (by Marjorie): I wouldn't have noticed, I don't think, but now my attention has been drawn to them, yes - I agree.  Her husband stood in clear need of arsenic in his coffee: you'd like to think he was unusual in his jealousy and oppression, but I doubt that he was.  The worst and cruellest thing you can do to an artist is discourage them (even if it may sometimes be hard to resist it): Lew's "jerk" is kinder that M. Bracquemond deserves.  
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