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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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I have found a few more of his paintings that I could live with .
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Tony Auffret

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Such a contrast in styles Dixie.  Such a surprise that they are by the same artist.  I could certainly live with the first one!
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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I was pleasantly surprised when I came across then Tony , if it hadn’t been for the name I would have thought it was a different artist.  I was told once by a professional artist that what he paints to make his living is not what he prefers to do , but it brings in the money. He had some personal stuff that was so different, he did put them in shows and gallery’s and was successful in selling a few but not enough to live  on. I suppose it easy for us to forget that you need to sell regular to afford the bread and butter and we paint whatever we want and to please ourselves most of the time. 
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

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This is very true - I know that if I were to paint large pictures of yachts, assuming I took the trouble to learn about the intricacies of sails, rigging, current hull shapes, colours, I could sell them.  But if I did that, would I ever paint anything other than - ruddy yachts?  I have no interest in them - I can see their beauty as they cleave through the water, their sails reflected in the sea, but that's not enough to make me want to represent them; and these days, I paint for myself (and have a flat full of unsold paintings, but that's something else again!).  I was warned off the life of a full-time professional artist by one who was a fine draughtsman, but hated - his word, and I'm sure he meant it - what he was doing.  He lived an oddly unfulfilled life, and died rather before his time, doing work in which he saw neither value nor purpose: but it was what he did, and it put clothes on his back and food on his table.  I'm sure I've mentioned him before, his experience simultaneously horrified and fascinated me - how could he do it?  How was he able to create pictures that people wanted and were prepared to pay for, when he despised his own work, and didn't have a very high opinion of his patrons either?  Anyway - that's not for me; I'm satisfied that I have paintings all over the world, well - Europe and Australia, anyway! - but if I'd tried to live on those sales, I shouldn't now be the bouncingly plump 71 year old that I am today.  There's a lot to be said for being able to afford to eat..... So - I understand, I think; on the sheer practical level; and maybe my late friend was exceptional in being quite so distraught at his own work.  I hope he was, because he was horribly unhappy for most of his life, or the years I knew about: maybe I lack sticking power, but if that's professionalism - I really don't want it.  
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