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Inspiration from Artists Wk 216 Featuring Artists George Mackley and Anthony Avery

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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Welcome to this weeks thread my choice of artist this week are  George Mackley and Anthony Avery. I have to confess that despite checking back on the list of artists we have previously featured I feel that we might have seen Mackley before, Edith on an illustrator thread or maybe Lew has mentioned him . I will go ahead with presenting his work and change artists if his work is familiar to you, I look at so many artists for the thread that I can and do get confused. George Mackley MBE 1900 - 1983, born in Huntingdon, educated at the Judd School Tonbridge Kent , Mackley trained as an art teacher at the Goldsmith’s College in London specialising in painting and etching. In 1935 he learned the basic wood engraving technique from Noel Rooke( 1881-1953 British wood engraver and artist ). In a history of Wood Engraving (1978)Albert Garrett described him as ‘ a phenomenon in British engraving’. ‘A few square centimetres of a Mackley is more charged with  aesthetic energy, emotion and precision than many artists can muster in a lifetime’. Mackley could not tolerate bad or weak craftsmanship under any circumstances bad craftsmanship met with short shift from him. He made no claim to being a creative artist and always stressed that he was primarily a craftsman. He was made an MBE in the 1983 New Years Honours List. I hope you enjoyed my selection and ig he is familiar please let me know .
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Sandra Kennedy

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What a wonderful find Paul. Personally I don't think it really matters if an artist is repeated on this thread, some of us will have missed him the first time, or else might be quite happy  to see further examples of his/her work. 

Tessa Gwynne

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I like them all but the fifth is by Monica Poole as a tribute to George. I do think his work is familiar but it may be that we have seen someone similar?  My favourite is the second boat shed . Very clean lines and striking work in general.
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Thanks Tessa I didn’t notice the comment on the bottom of the painting, shows how carefully I look , what a dipstick that will teach me to look more closely in future, think the P isn’t for Paul it’s prat .

Tessa Gwynne

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Easily done Dixie, and quite interesting to see one artist’s take on another who they obviously admire.
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Carol .

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If this artist has been posted, here, before, his work is certainly worth a second look.  My favorites are the woodland scene, and the third one reminds me of Beddgelert, north Wales.

Jenny Harris

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I very much like his wood engravings with their clean lines.  I don’t think we’ve looked at this artist before, although have seen one or two others with a similar style.

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Lewis Cooper

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I admire the wood engravings very much, as I have a liking for monochrome they are very much to my taste.  His colour work is very good too, but ,for me, doesn’t the same impact. Don’t think we’ve seen his work before.
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Well that taken a load of my mind , apart from looking at similar work and researching I do like this type of work and use a book that lists their names etc . I wasn’t totally convinced I had posted his work before hence going ahead, pleased I did , l knew that Lew would probably recall his work as he is quite fond of illustrations and woodcuts etc.
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Robert Jones, Napa

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The monochromes are superb, the paintings mellow -  you could say that the latter could have been painted in the Victorian era, but that's no disadvantage to my eyes (feeble and bloodshot though they be...).   If I have seen them before, I'm  happy to see them again.  Truth is, the UK has produced a plethora of very good artists over at least several hundred years: some fall into obscurity, inevitably, and it's good to see them pushed back into the limelight where they  belong. PS - has it already  been suggested that the last of these paintings wasn't painted by the same artist?  There's a big difference in technique - I didn't quite follow earlier comments in the thread: the morning coffee hasn't kicked in yet...

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Magdalena Oberg

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Agree with Robert. Monochrome work is great. Atmospheric and clean lines.Good to see such work.
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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A few more before I change artist tomorrow.

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