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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Welcome to this weeks thread , this is the last week until January that Jenny and I will be introducing individual artists. Over the Christmas and New Year we will have topics so that anyone can post it give both of us a chance to sit back a little bit. This week’s featuring Artist are : Pamela Grace and Richard Clifton Dey . Jenny will open the week with her introduction to Pamela Grace and on Wednesday I will introduce Richard Clifton Dey . Have a good week and join in by finding some of the artwork by the two featuring artists that you particularly like .

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PAMELA GRACE is a Galloway based artist and printmaker who began her career as a textile designer, training at the Scottish College of Textiles in Galashiels.  Her work is based on drawing, realised in pen and ink/wash, etchings and lithographs.  Sketches and larger coloured drawings are often started on location and then developed in the studio, strengthening elements and using other techniques and processes to explore their potential. Etching using photo-intaglio printmaking is a technique which emerged from early photographic engraving.  A light sensitive metal plate is etched through the action of ultraviolet light, enabling a wide range of tones to be bitten into the plate, which is then inked, wiped and printed on a traditional etching press.  Some etchings she designs to be hand finished with watercolour. Paintings

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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Thanks for the introduction Jenny , she is a very skilled artist, I love her trees they are beautifully drawn and hen the splash of colours added just takes it up to another level. 
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Robert Jones, Napa

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  Love the sensitive use of colour, and of course the meticulous, but not tight, drawing - gorgeous work. 
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Lewis Cooper

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A good find.  I like her drawings and limited use of colour, it’s very effective.

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I love the process of etching on a plate, I’ve done lots of it over the years but with acids, which aren’t recommended these days for obvious reasons. These are really good, I’ve meticulously studied them and to say I’m impressed, would be an understatement! She’s got a fabulous large etching press, I’m envious!

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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Some of her work that I particularly like.

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Lovely work, very appealing. I don’t claim to completely understand her process but I do like the results very much. I also like the limited use of colour and those washing lines- great subject!
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Andrew Roles

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I like Pamela’s work  and think she has a great style with limited use of colour that draws the eye. I also like the washing line motif which is repeated in many of the pieces, such as this one:
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Now for something very different, I came across this artists work while researching another artist Richard  Clifton who produces wildlife paintings, I will feature him another time.  Richard Clifton-Dey 1930 - 1997 as a British artist born in Yorkshire and was known most for his western and science fiction subjects. He stared singing in the 196s ad was one of the most highly respected British Illustrators in the 1970s and into the 1980s . Most of his work was for book overs either for science fiction, fantasy, action adventure war  books or gothic art with the occasional foray into advertising.  As with many cases of artwork produced for book covers most of his artwork is not signed , provenance for all wors not signed is attested to by his widow. I hope you enjoy my selection of his unusual works.

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Don’t recall seeing his work before although he’s illustrated dozens of book covers.  I like best his sci-fi illustrations, especially the first of Paul’s selection above called Behemoth’s World.  It was used both as a book cover and album cover.  This is the full picture..

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A good illustrator, covering a wide span of subject matter.  As far as Sci-Fi and Fantasy goes, artists often have to create alien life forms.  Not an easy task.  The result has to be relatable to the readers, so these 'alien' creatures tend to be an amalgam of creatures known to us. In this book cover art we have a half spider, half orangutan creature, because that's what the story called for... Sometimes when I look at these, it's like a 'spot the animal' game.   I'm not being derogatory, it's probably the best way to get your message across...and they are so well painted.  
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