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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Welcome to this weeks thread , the featuring artists this week are :  Margaret Rose Preston and Uemura Shoen. I will open this evening with my chosen artist Margaret Rose Preston , on Wednesday Denise with introduce us to the artwork of Uemura Shoen . Margaret Rose Preston  1879 - 1963,  Know as Rose to her family and started to use  her first name later in life . Was an Australian printer , printmaker and writer on art who is regarded as one of Australias leading modernist of the twenty century. In her quest to foster an Australian “ national art “ she was also one of the first non-indigenous Australian artists to use Aboriginal motifs in her work. She was born in Port Adelaide before her family move to Sydney in 1885, where she attended Fort Street Girls High School. Margaret shows pd an early interest in art ,taking lessons with William Lister Lister,  Following classes with Lister she studied at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School , she had a break in her studies when her father died , on finishing her studies and in her early career she taught art to support herself and her family. Info from Wikipedia. I hope you enjoy my selection of her artwork.

Jenny Harris

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Good choice, Paul, I like her colourful work - these are hand coloured woodblock prints.

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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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I though they might appeal to you Jenny . 
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Lewis Cooper

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Lovely work.  I admire wood block art, and the very  definite choices the artist has to make when cutting the blocks.  These are excellent.

Denise Cat

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I like her work. I picked two paintings that are oil on canvas. The first one, at first, I thought was print work. The lines are so clean and crisp and I really liked the design. The second is a self portrait. It is expressive and the brushwork looks subtle not like some expressive portraits that come along and hit you in the face with splodges of out of place colour and unhinged brush marks. Here, her portrait is very beautiful in colour placement and brushwork. Implement Blue 1927 Self portrait 1930
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Lewis Cooper

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Her main subjects seem to be flowers and still life, these are two subjects that have no great personal appeal to me.  But, as always, good examples are always welcome.  Here's a few I like... A self portrait in oils...
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Lewis Cooper

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Ahh...I was posting at same time as Denise, but she's found a much better version of the self-portrait.
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Some good selection made , I particularly like the still life posted by both Denise and Lew, I not a big fan of still life but these two are really good.

Tessa Gwynne

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Beautiful work with a cheerful use of colour. I would happily hang any of these on my wall! I found the website www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au which has a lot of her work and an interesting variety of subject matter and style not shown above, worth a look.

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Norrette Moore

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I much prefer the ones which aren't prints.  They seem lighter and brighter.
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Marjorie Firth

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I agree.Norette. The prints are rather heavy and dark.
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Just bringing this back up for Denise to add her artists .   I curious as to  why her prints are much darker , I know little about prints , is it due to the process or the type of inks etc at the time . 
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