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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Welcome to this weeks thread m before we proceed can I please have the names of any artist you would like to see featured as the current list runs out next week and I want to make up another . This week’s featuring artists are , John Muirhead and Paul Lewin, I will open with a short introduction to John Muirhead 1863    - 1927. Born in Edinburg he studied at the Board of Manufactures School in the City known as a landscape painter, illustrator and etcher . He worked in France , Belgium he also lived in London and Houghton in Huntingdonshire. Some plates made from his oil paintings were used in Hillary Bellocs The Rivers of  London.  Some  of his work that I have selected out of the many online.
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Tony Auffret

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Part of the fun of this series is coming across an artist that you don't know and then going online to view their work, picking one or two simple because the grab your attention.  Here'a a couple of Muirhead's that grabbed my attention, partly because they are so different in style.  The first is titled 'Greenwich' and the second is 'Cwm Idwal'.
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Tony I enjoy looking up and discovering more of the work by an artist, you do find some great paintings and learn a lot as well . Some more by the same artist, he painted a variety of scenes and often populated them, I suppose that was the fashion at the time as many older landscapes paintings don't have figures in them .
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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My second artist this week is possibly known to a few of you as he appears on the forum form many years ago , however not ax a featured artist. Paul Lewin 1967. Is a painter of international renown for his cliff top en plein air paintings . Paul trained in Bristol and has since lived and worked in South West Britain, much of the time in West Penweth, the westernmost tip of Cornwall.  Paul teaches watercolour painting at the Newlyn School of Art, his teaching style is very much about generously sharing his knowledge and skills . His mixed media work uses a great number of different techniques learnt over a long career. I hope you enjoy my selection of his work and fine more that you like online, please to share your choice of his work with us.

Tessa Gwynne

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Grand paintings Dixie. I really like all of your picks and will look further.  I had a look at his website this morning and chose these. There is also a short video clip of him painting on a cliff top in foul weather and obviously loving it! Well worth a look and an example to all about the challenges (and joy!?) of Plein air painting. I could easily have chosen more but best give someone else a go! I am always drawn to paintings of the coastline, especially Cornwall. We have had the discussion previously about looking at a lot of one artist’s work at the same time, being a bit off putting but I don’t feel that here. I could happily hang one or more of these on my wall and appreciate the differences. 

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Tony Auffret

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Very much the artist of the Cornish coastline.  Which makes it rather difficult to choose a painting to post.  They are all very good, but there is the undoubted similarity of subject matter.  Never-the-less, I liked this one.
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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Can I have the very top one, please.....?  The last shown, Tony's favourite, shows rather too much work with the rigger for my liking: though it would look impressive from a respectful distance.  I don't wish to disparage his work in any way, it's just preference: he is a fabulous artist. 

Tessa Gwynne

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The top one is on its way Robert….😉
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Robert Jones, Napa

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You realize I shall hold you to this, and sue you for breach of contract should it not arrive?  It is a lovely painting though, isn't it?  His forte is clearly coastal scenes, at least from the selection shown  - but,  though I love coastal scenes and often paint them (just - not as well...) my first love is trees and this is an excellent one. 

Tessa Gwynne

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I am sure you  realise that delivery companies are not always as efficient as they might be. I suspect that some of their drivers may not even know where the Isle of Wight is….. Just live with the hope….

Claire Williams

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Hello, I have just found this area of the website.  Thank you for your posts. I am a bit nervous about saying something clumsy as I am new to art, but I really like the sense of life in the pictures - I feel like the weather is being clearly communicated. I also particularly like the turquoise areas of the sea near to the beaches. 

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