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Inspiration from Artists Wk 205 Featuring Artists : Paul Evens and Harry Becker .
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PAUL EVANS (born 1954) is a British contemporary landscape painter best known for his expressive depictions of the British countryside including East Anglia, the Sussex Downs and Cornwall. He is now based in Suffolk but was born and raised in Sussex where between 1972 and 1976 he studied children’s book illustration and printmaking at Eastbourne College of Art and Design. He developed a passion for nature at an early age and has devoted his whole life to his art.
He works in a variety of media including watercolour, inks and acrylics, and also enjoys making etchings and linocuts. In 1988 he established his first gallery in East Sussex, moving to Suffolk in 1992 where he opened Lavenham Contemporary Gallery. In addition to his many exhibitions (65 solo) his artistic career of over 45 years has resulted in over 500 images being reproduced for greetings cards, calendars and limited edition prints.
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Not afraid of colour, is he? There's some very good work here - the last one shown is similar in concept and design to a Norman Battershill oil, but that bit wilder; I like both... some (quite a lot) of spattering in some of the others: this can be very predictable and superficial, but he carries it off with a practised hand - I think he works on quite a large scale? At least in some cases: I imagine the monochrome piece is smaller?
He's one of the very few artists I've ever encountered who can make oil seed rape look attractive.... I never can!
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Robert, sorry, should have included an indication of size. Most of those I’ve shown are 47 cm sq., although some of his work is larger than that. The ink drawing is 76 cm x 58 cm. Quite a few of his paintings are ink and acrylic, others acrylic on canvas.
Not all of his work is as brightly coloured as those I’ve shown (I do love colour) - here are a couple which aren’t quite so colourful.
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You beat me to it Jenny I was deliberately waiting for today to post the ones I particularly liked, hope I haven’t duplicated but no matter as they are worth seeing again if I have . The colours are so vivid my first one looks like it’s ultraviolet light the mix of colour is brilliant at first they seen to many.
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More fabulous work - the snow scene that Paul has posted in the latest batch is just beautifully observed; I keep being drawn back to the oil-seed rape painting, up above - normally, I resist spatter - either doing it myself or observing others use it - but here, it works like an absolute charm: it's the powerful, clean and vibrant colour that does it, but also the placement - the accuracy, the depth; he's totally on top of this technique. I know that some will say they much prefer to see actual brush (or knife) strokes, but they're there too - it's not a technique I'd want to see repeated too often, so that it becomes a signature, but - he doesn't, does he?
I have seen some of his work before (on Facebook, which for the moment I've managed to lock myself out of: in more than two minds about going back...) but happily, none of these: which are showing up extremely well on the Forum page, too.
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Now for something completely different, it’s always a bit of a concern when you follow on from an artist that produces such vivid coloured work, but fortunately every artist is different and my chosen artist if from different era .
Harry Becker 1865 - 1928 was a British artist born to German parents in Colchester . At the age of fourteen he enrolled in the Royal Academy of Fine Art in Antwerp the continued his training in Paris. On returning to England he moved to a studio at Valley Farm East Bergholt financed by his father . He produced paintings for the London Underground, he is predominantly a portrait and figure artist. More about him available on Wikipedia.
I have selected a variety of his work, the last one looks different to his usual style but has been authenticated as his work by a leading gallery.
I have included his sketch’s as there are available online and I love his figure sketch’s , full,of action.
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