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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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I did check back Tessa and can’t find anything regarding his work unless it was on one of the special weeks and I forgot to record it . We have had similar artists to this on occasion, Marjorie I will look at Tom McGuinness , and if we haven’t included him before I will us him as a bonus artist this weekend.

Tessa Gwynne

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Thanks for checking Dixie- it could well have been a specials week.
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Marjorie Firth

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We have looked at Norman Cornish before but maybe not as a chosen artist. I remember Tessa saying she liked him.
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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I had a bit of a niggling feeling that I had seen his work before , as I couldn't find out when I thought maybe it’s just because I researched him . On a selfish note I like his work enough to have the opportunity for looking it more closely, hope that’s ok with you guys . 
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Marjorie Firth

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That’s great Paul if you can feature Tom. Look under Tom McGuinness art and he will come up. If anyone fancies a nostalgic look into the past, the BBC video is very interesting. Around the year  2000 our art group visited his studio in Bishop Auckland, which is where I bought my print. And what a lovely man he was.
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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I will put him up on Friday as the weekend bonus artist , be quite good staying with a theme , something I have done before.  If anyone has anymore names for the list please let me have them .
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Lewis Cooper

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He painted this scene many times... All good, I prefer the first one. At times, there was a caricature look to some of his portraits.  Like the one on the right.  (I like it). A fine artist...
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Marjorie Firth

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Tony Auffret

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This one could almost be a scene from my early childhood in the north east during the fifties.  The Rag and Bone man had a horse and cart of course, but coal was delivered by horse and cart, and even the ice-cream man's van was pulled by a horse.  Where my Nana lived the street was cobbles and there was still a man who went round on a bicycle with a long pole, lighting the gas lamps.
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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I’m having a lot of pleasure from featuring  Norman Cornish , it’s a trip down memory lane as in the fifties and sixties I visited my grandparents in Leeds , the scenery is so much like it was then. I’m also enjoying you good folk enjoying the work and of course remembering similar times, make the effort of researching and posting so worthwhile , thank you for sharing your  memories . I’m reminded that whilst in the sixties and seventies the streets and houses shown were call slums , unfit to live in extra , but all that happened was lest sturdy slums were created. People who live in the so called slums took pride in there home , cleaning the steps, washing the windows, and always washing out to dry , PRIDE in what little they had , nosey as hell sometimes but willing to help a neighbour in need .  A few more before I become a sentimental wrench , dribbling nostalgia.

Sylvia Evans

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What a great collection of paintings.   My childhood back ground as well but on the Red Rose side of the Pennines.
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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Great collection of paintings: AND he signed them legibly - no doubt thinking of us, as we struggle to distinguish fantastically elaborate signatures when people ask us about something they've retrieved from Auntie Vera's attic.   Those semi-caricatures - they're brilliant; they remind me of so many people  from a now largely disappeared generation.  
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