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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Welcome to this weeks Inspiration from Artists the featuring at it this week are :  H J Jackson and Pete Wileman . Jenny will open with her introduction to HJ Jackson and on Wednesday Alan will introduced hi choice of artist Pete Wileman. Have a good week and enjoy the  artwork .

Jenny Harris

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H.J. JACKSON, a British printmaker, was born in 1938 in Norfolk.  Having briefly been introduced to linocutting in his last term at school, he was interviewed for a place at Norwich School of Art.  The wood engraver Geoffrey Wales looked at his initial print (of a small galleon in full sail) and pronounced that he would study linocutting as a craft, and with those few words, his artistic life was mapped out. He obtained a National Diploma in Graphic Design and subsequently worked full time in Marketing and Publicity for 34 years, printmaking during evenings and weekends. In 1995 he started printmaking full time.   He produced his first editioned print in 1958, inspired by the closure of his local railway, and this set the style of subject matter that he would later choose - the disappearing railway, old houses and streets earmarked for demolishing, and - what was to become his main inspiration -  the declining fishing industry. On leaving school in the late 1950s he had to devise a method of printing by hand.  Surprisingly, the answer came in the form of his tobacco tin, using its base as a burnishing tool - a method he still employs today. In 2023 he celebrated 70 years of printmaking with an anniversary exhibition at the Bircham Gallery in Norfolk.

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Tessa Gwynne

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Jenny, you never fail to introduce us to some amazing artists and printmakers!  I was hooked at the first one, and love the boats especially. I shall look him up tomorrow. Thank you.

Alan Bickley

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I love to see good printing, and this is excellent, some fabulous images! Thanks Jenny…
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Thank you for the introduction Jenny , I have sen some of his work before but didn’t know who’s it was . I like them all probably because he prints some of my favourite subjects, boats, tractors etc. I will have a good look at his work later today. 
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, NAPA

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This is real, high quality, work - this gentleman is a genius: I could happily take all the pictures down from my walls and replace them with Mr Jackson's prints. I haven't tried printing of any kind since I left school, and then it was lino blocks, on a press so old Queen Victoria might have admired it - so nothing like this.  I'd love to learn to do it (and have the space) but I think 73 next month is a bit late to start: and anyway - I'd be 173 before I even approached the foothills of his achievement (even though I have the tobacco tin ....). Thank you Jenny, indeed, for discovering this artist for us - I'd not heard of him before, which is probably my ignorance; but if he's not world famous, he ought to be.  
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Lewis Cooper

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Another brilliant find Jenny.  The various printing techniques have always fascinated me, it's something that's passed me bye in my efforts to make pictures.  Like Robert, I feel it's too late to try now, but it's a delight to see work as good as this.

Denise Cat

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Jenny a real gem. His work is amazing, really interesting and I love all those earth colours in his work.
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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I’m out all day tomorrow so thought I had better post my choices this evening. Just amazing work and difficult to select just a few.

Alan Bickley

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Peter Wileman ROI RSMA b.1946  He is a former President and a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters, a Member of the Royal Society of Marine Artists and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He has worked in the field of art and design for over forty years and he is known as one of the UK’s finest landscape painters.  His style is bold and vigorous, both in the use of colour and handling of paint, as he explores the effect of light on his subject. Seeking atmosphere through light and colour, he works in varying degrees of abstraction.  His oil paintings are characterised by a highly expressive, painterly technique, as he explores the effect of light on his subject. Seeking atmosphere through light and colour, he works in varying degrees of abstraction. He’s written four books in total, the one that I have is called Painting Light in Oils - I’ve selected a few of his more traditional works plus a few more expressive semi-abstract oils. Not the stuff of fine detail as we’ve seen recently on here, but a more expressive approach to both composition and colour!
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Marjorie Firth

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Love the semi abstract ones.

Jenny Harris

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I also really like the colourful semi abstract ones - will have a further look later.
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