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Inspiration from favourite artists Week 9: Eric Ravilious and Andrea Kowch

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Lewis Cooper

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Lovely to see Ravilious's work again, several are new to me.  I'm lucky to be able to admire most forms of art, but the type of work that really rings the bell for me, is where the artist has his/her own unique style.  That's Ravilious.   I'm also looking forward to Andrea Kowch's work, a very different but equally distinctive artist.  I find it has a surreal edge without the usual trappings of the surreal.

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Agree with you, Lewis, about Ravilious’s work, his watercolour style is so distinctive.  I read that it owes a lot to his earlier work on wood engravings, creating patterns and textures with cross hatching, scoring, stippling and shading.  Apparently he used fairly thin watercolour paper and built his paintings up in layers using these methods. Andrea Kowch’s work I’ve only recently come across and I just love it.  Have chosen my favourites of her work to post on Wednesday.  (Thought her work would appeal to you!)

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Tessa Gwynne

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Looking forward to that Jennie! She’s another I was not aware of but had a quick peep this morning- just amazing and again very distinctive.

Jenny Harris

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ANDREA KOWCH is a contemporary American artist whose work has been described as ‘magical realism’.  She uses the rural landscape of her native Midwest as the inspiration for her imaginative, often dreamlike, paintings which usually include an element of storytelling and have been likened to a cross between Andrew Wyeth and Alfred Hitchcock. Soirée The Watch Fetch Sojourn Pecking Order The Courtiers In the Hollow

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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Some amazing paintings Jenny, I read somewhere that she sometimes paints herself in her paintings and uses two sisters as her main models . I will have a look later this evening and pick one or two out there are a lot to choose from . 
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Lewis Cooper

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Fascinating and brilliant work.  I've seen her labeled as a 'visionary' and 'magic surrealism' artist.  Such labels are a waste of time, her work is very individual and offbeat.  I do see a touch of surrealism in her work, they are intensely narrative, and I like the way her figures always have a passive expression.  This allows you to 'read' her paintings as you will.  She's a class act.
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Russell Edwards

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Yet another artist I wasn't familiar with, what on earth do I do with my time? I find her work mesmerising and mystifying, what a talent.

Sylvia Evans

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Some lovely work on here especially Eric Ravilious  another artist I didn't know...so many.   Though somewher in the back of my head I feel I have seen some of them before.   Clean flowing lines just beautifully done , thanks for the intro. 

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Robert Jones, Napa

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Certainly a touch of Wyeth in there - does anyone know if she uses tempera, as Andrew Wyeth often did?  It's a medium which would lend itself to her approach, but whatever she paints with, she paints with it brilliantly.  The Ravilious work - I've seen a lot of it, though by no means all, before - that wonderful sweep of shapes, those effects in skies and water, the simplifying of detail, all his hallmarks: wonderful artist, and yet another example of the utter, destructive, murderous futility of war,  

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Robert, there’s an interesting article on Artistsnetwork.com entitled ‘How to create powerful magical realism in acrylic’ which explains her painting method in some detail.  She uses acrylic (without any medium) and starts painting the flesh first with a monochromatic palette of white, ultramarine blue and black, slowly building up skin tones in layer after layer.  She uses a multi layering approach throughout each painting.

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Robert Jones, Napa

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Thank you Jenny, will take a look at that tomorrow.  
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