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Inspiration from Artists Wk 202 featuring artists: Gary Walton and Austen Deans
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Welcome to this weeks inspiration thread the featuring artists this week are :
Garry Walton = introduced by Jenny .
Austen Deans = introduced by Sandra .
Jenny will open the week with her introduction to Gary Walton and on Wednesday Santa will introduce Austen Deans . It will be interesting as Sandra is introducing us to New Zealand artists, she also need to over come the problem o the time difference between UK and NZ. Hopefully posting on what is her evening it will be online for us Wednesday.
Enjoy your week and especially your art .
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GARY WALTON is a British artist, born 1962 in Worcester. He excelled in creative classes through his school years before going on to work in graphic design where he continued to develop his technical and artistic abilities while painting part-time. His unique style has gradually developed into his instantly recognisable work today.
Influenced by the surrealist work of Salvador Dali, his paintings depict ethereal scenes, blurring the line between dream and reality. In fact, many of his works start life as dreams, images seen in his sleep translated into to oil on canvas.
Despite having lived inland in recent years he still has a strong affection for the coast, with boats, beach huts and lighthouses a recurring motif in his work.
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by Jenny Harris
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I like his work a lot more than that of Dalí - which for me is too much based on standard Freudian psychology; Walton's work is fun. Perhaps Dalí's is too, but it's been around for too long for me to see it.
I yield to no one in my admiration of Dalí's technical genius, I must add, or someone will throw things at me. I just don't like his paintings, and do like Mr Walton's.
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Like these fun and skilfully detailed painting , not something I would normally spend time looking at , but that’s the great thing about the thread you look at different styles that you normally would dismiss. My selection is solely based on that I like them and of subjects I particularly enjoy.
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Very different from the previous artist! The site has refused to load for the last hour or so, I'll break this up into segments in case there's still a problem.
Alister Austen Deans OBE (1915-2011) was born in Christchurch (N.Z.). He became interested in art in his teenage years, and studied fine arts at what was then the Canterbury College School of Art. He volunteered for the second N.Z. Expeditionary Force on the outbreak of WW2, and in 1941 was appointed an assistant war artist. As a prisoner of war he was allowed to paint and his work was a useful record of life as a POW. After the war he studied painting at the Sir John Cass Technical Institute in England before settling down on a lifestyle block in Canterbury. Working in both watercolour and oils he was a prolific painter of the Canterbury hill country, as well as other parts of the South Island.
(His work really appeals to me as Canterbury is my province and I know quite a lot of the places where he painted).
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by Sandra Kennedy
The only war painting I've been able to find.
