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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Welcome to this weeks thread the featuring artist this week are :  Claire Dalby and Colin See Payton  I will open the thread this evening with my introduction to Claire Dalby and on Wednesday Jenny  will introduced us to the artwork of Colin See Payton . Claire Dalby was born in 1944 and is a British painter, engraver and book illustrator who mainly depicts botanical subjects through watercolour, gouache and wood. Her father was the respected watercolour painter Charles Longbotham.  Clair attended the Haberdashers Aske,s School for Girls in west London from 1955- 1963. She studied art, specialising in engraving and calligraphy at the City in Guilds of London School of Art from 1964 ton1967. Full Bio on Wikipedia. I hope you enjoy my selection of her artwork.

Tessa Gwynne

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Another delightful and inspiring artist Dixie!  I don’t usually go for traditional still life, but that vase of flowers is just beautiful, and her etchings are wonderful with great and appealing composition.
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Tony Auffret

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Her strong sense of line marks her out as an illustrator.  I find myself with an ambivalent reaction to such works.  Although I wouldn't hang them on my wall, I still find them pleasing to the eye.  The painting below, I picked out partly because it is a little different, rich and sumptuous, and partly because it could have come from a 16th or 17th century renaissance artist - those who worked in a time when every table cloth had its obligatory crease.

Sylvia Evans

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Oh what a wonderful artist, brilliant Paul.   Her botanical paintings are a joy and the first still life with the bottles is fab.   Thank you for the discovery. 

Jenny Harris

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Another good find, Paul.  It’s her wood engravings and plant drawings that particularly appeal to me.

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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Some more of her still life work and an engraving.

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Jenny Harris

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COLIN SEE-PAYNTON was born in Bedfordshire, moving in 1972 to a remote farmhouse in Wales where he built his studio.  Entirely self-taught as a wood engraver, he started making prints in 1980 and has since produced over 250 editions. He studied at the Northampton School of Art and is regarded as one of the finest wood engravers working today, gaining international recognition.  His work is based on detailed observation of the natural world and yet has an almost abstract quality within the patterning and layering of images.  He has published several books of his engravings. “Wood engraving is a relief printmaking process that for me begins with the development of a design.  My initial drawing is taken through a number of progressively more developed stages until I have a quite simple but very defined pure line drawing.  This is my finished drawing and is now ready to be transferred to the block”. He uses Box wood for the smaller engravings and Lemon wood for the larger ones.  Each can take anything from a week to three or four months to complete.  He prints using his (1869) Albion press and prefers a handmade Japanese paper. A few of his oil paintings…

Tessa Gwynne

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Wow Jenny, another great artist! I like his wood block work and his oil paintings. This reminds me of the lovely book Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton, which I read recently. If anyone likes hares as I do, and wildlife in general it’s a beautiful book to read.  Back to Colin See Dalton, the more I look at his prints the more I like them. His work is exceptional. Thanks Jenny.
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Some of the finest prints I have seen, so clear and the detailing is amazing. Thanks for your introduction Jenny I certainly will have a look at his work and choose some I particularly like.
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Hilary Forbes

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I like his work very much, pleased to know of him and he must be one of the best engravers around.
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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A few more. 

Alan Bickley

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The engravings are by far my preferred images! Simply stunning work from the subjects up to the superb printing on that huge old press!
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