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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Welcome to this week’s inspiration thread , the featuring artists this week are :  Belinda Eaton and Roman Kockanowskl. Jenny will open with her introduction to Belinda Eaton and on Wednesday I will introduce Roman Kockanowski .  I hope you enjoy the artwork and find some on line to add to those we have chosen.

Jenny Harris

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BELINDA EATON, a British artist, was born in the 60s in Kenya and has led a nomadic lifestyle living in London, New York, Paris, Karachi and Barcelona.  She is currently living and painting between England and Andalusia in Spain. She was schooled in Spain and earned her art degree at St Martin’s in London.  Her studies included printmaking and etching. She works in acrylics on canvas primed with a coloured gesso.  Her paintings are usually large in scale, and scaling with a grid she draws the primary focus with pencil.  Painting on a large scale enables her to use big brushes - she uses Jackson’s synthetic filbert brushes as well as household paint brushes.  Winsor and Newton Griffin Alkyd paints are her first choice.  She tends not to plan compositions and colour combinations at the outset and her paintings change over the course of time resulting in many layers of overpainting.  She has a large collection of fabrics and favours repetitive patterns.  She has synesthesia and her sense of taste is connected to her sense of colour. She was featured in the Feb. 2026 issue of The Leisure Painter and Artist.

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Lewis Cooper

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Wow.  What an artist.  A style that appeals to me very much.  I admire the strong colour and decorative backgrounds.  Inspirational.

Tessa Gwynne

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Her work is big, bold and very vibrant! I remember the Artist magazine article a few months ago which I will dig out and re-read. I was fascinated to read that she starts with a blackened gesso on her canvas, and never works from a white surface. Thank you Jenny. 
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Tony Auffret

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There's no doubting her paintings are big and bold.  I took a look at her website and chose this one - quite restrained for her I suppose, yet still bold in its own way.
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Lewis Cooper

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Here's a few more that I like...
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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I like the image of her standing in  her studio surrounded by hoopoes, bee-eaters, golden orioles, and other birds beyond my ability to recognize - it puts them into a context and of course shows their actual size.  I find some of them a bit overwhelming when displayed without that. She follows a modern convention in portraiture, which can be seen in  the portrait of Bill Bailey (for t'is surely he) in introducing quite bold  flesh tones  which do work, but which you'd be alarmed to see in the features of someone approaching you in the street; I've never been able to make my mind up about that approach.  While it helps to create a vibrant portrait, it can  also look as though someone has gone a bit mental  with the make-up.  But then - I'm conservative in these things; I  observe without criticizing, because she is clearly very capable, makes exciting paintings, and to a far more muted extent, I've done something like it myself.  The scale of her portraits helps to balance the experimental colour palette.  It's fairly obvious that I'm not convinced by it, but maybe I need to get with the programme.....
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Russell Edwards

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Incredibly talented artists and whilst I very much admire her paintings I do find the backgrounds rather distracting.
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Marjorie Firth

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Too much is going on for me - I agree with Russell, but interesting to look at.

Tessa Gwynne

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I like the one of ‘Our Cilla’ painted from an interesting angle. I think she is one of those artists whose work is big bold and colourful to the extent that seeing a lot of it together can be a bit much. We have discussed this effect before and I think it’s the same here and it doesn’t stop me liking her work. Most of us probably have no more than a handful of pictures/paintings on our wall and not all by the same artist (you may of course be different!). Apart from the great colour involved I think she is excellent at figure work and design.
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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She is a very skilled artist who loves using bright colours, her work is very cleverly put together. It’s to complicated for my taste , there is too much going on in the background and that puts me off the portrait or main subject of her work.  I have selected a few that are less cluttered than others.

Alan Bickley

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Immensely talented and I’ll also use the word skilled… But, like others that have commented, just a bit too much to take in for me personally. It’s knowing when to stop! More isn’t always better - or, less is more! 
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