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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Welcome to this week’s inspiration thread the featuring artist fir this week are : Sam Cannon and Lars  Lerin  Jenny will start the week with her introduction to Sam Cannon on Wednesday I will introduce Lars Lerin I hope you all have a good week and find some of the artwork on offer interesting enough fir you to find more on li r to share with us . 

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Jenny Harris

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SAM CANNON is a British artist and illustrator living in Dorset.  She works in watercolours, gouache, coloured pencils and graphite on board, paper, slate and stone, often incorporating literary quotes in a calligraphic style. She has always had a passion for drawing, but initially pursued graphic design, earning a BA (Hons) in Typography and Graphic Communication from Reading University, altnough the course did not include drawing of any kind.  Following graduation she spent years working in office jobs and the family business.  In 1991 she tried to make a living drawing horse racing scenes but struggled to sell her work and took a break from the art world to raise her son as a single mum.  In 2010 she moved to Dorset with her family where she found her niche by combining watercolour illustrations of the natural world with hand lettered text of literary quotes.  She often uses tiny brushes and can spend 30 or 40 hours on a single piece.  Her inspiration comes from nature, specifically the eight acres of rewilded land she shares with her family in Dorset. (Hafez, 14th Century Persian poet) (A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh) (Guillaume Apollinaire) (Shakespeare, Comedy of Errors) (Rumi, 13th Century Persian poet) (Tolkien, The Hobbit) (W.B. Yeats) (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) (Shakespeare,  A Midsummer Night’s Dream) (Jean-Paul Sartre)

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Tessa Gwynne

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Charming work Jenny. I like her style and the way she has incorporated words into her design rather than just added them. Hard to choose a favourite but I do love a hare, and the one with the swallows is very appealing. I will look her up. 
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Excellent work the detailing in some of them is amazing, lime the ones yiu have selected Jenny will hav3 a look and see what I can find . 
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Lewis Cooper

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Impressive graphic style, I like her use of text.

Alan Bickley

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Refreshingly different in many respects, I like most of them, the text adds another layer to these beautifully constructed drawings… the detail on that little wren is extraordinary!
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Russell Edwards

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I love the wren!
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Sandra Kennedy

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Beautiful original style with wonderful detail.
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Some more of her superb artwork before we change artists later today. Seem to have chosen all fox paintings, I’m sure a psychologist would make something out of my choices, I just happen to like the paintings.
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Sorry as it’s a cut and paste introduction due to computer issues.

Jenny Harris

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Although I like his watercolours, I especially like his woodcuts.  (You’ve already shown the last one.)

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

Robert Jones, Napa

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The wren is the star product of the previous artist; I like the painting of the man and cat - generally would prefer woodcuts, but that painting reminds me of a very fine painting by Maggie Hambling, of the late, great comedian Max Wall, singing Poor Little Rich Girl to her cat: a finely compassionate painting without being in any way sentimental.  You don't have to sentimentalize critters, many of whom so many of us have loved: the best animal portraits just don't need it, the beauty and sensitivity of the subject speaks for itself.   I'd say the same, by the way, for my own very best portrait - of The Great Ralph (TM)  - my domesticated rat; and a star in his own firmament. 
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