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Les Shirt

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Hello, I hope someone can help with identifying an artist who I bought two oil paintings from while on a weekend away in March this year. He was exhibiting at a craft fair/bazaar in Buxton, Derbyshire, and selling his works at an extremely reasonable price. I was aware of his name at the time, and looked at his website, where he also sells his works online, when we got home. Frustratingly, I cannot now for the life of me remember his name ( my browser search history is no help as it's five months ago ) and all of my google searches are not producing anything. I've attached a photo of one of the works and close up shots of the signature. A friend was really taken with them and would very much like to buy one of his works from his website for a birthday gift for a relative. I would be extremely grateful if someone could point me in the direction of the artist. I seem to recall that he was based in the southern half of England, in a coastal location if I'm remembering that correctly. Thank you.

Sylvia Evans

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Nice pic Dyserthbloke......just up the road from me. But I think you are looking for a miracle ...I would suggest that you contacted the hall in Buxton and asked them who the organisers of the event were and hopefully they should be able to give you the info. Fingers crossed .
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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The only painter known to me who has anything like this style is a woman - whose name is something-Brayfield. I can't read the signature, unfortunately (and obviously you can't either). Put it on Facebook - that's probably going to be seen by more casual art-buyers than this site, which is mostly seen by other artists. With any luck, of course, someone looking in will recognize his own work. The names seems to start with 'H' - any good for jogging the memory?

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Robert Jones, Napa

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Hang on - that's not a Malcolm Ludvigsen, is it? It's his sort of palette (colour range) and he paints a lot of seascapes.

Haidee-Jo Summers VPROI RSMA

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Ah now there's a good reason to sign your name legibly on your artwork! ;-) Sorry I can't help, I can't even tell what medium it is, but it doesn't look too much like a Malcolm Ludvigsen to me Robert. I think Sylvia has the best idea, if you contact the organisers of the event they will know who was exhibiting. Interesting that you say they are oils, I would never have guessed that by looking at those big white lumps. And that it's framed with a mount (and glazed?) would suggest that it's a work on paper? Good luck finding the artist anyway, and let us know :-)
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Robert Jones, Napa

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On reflection, H-J, you're right. (And certainly right about signing your artwork - and preferably writing something on the back.) Malcolm's style has varied a lot over a few years, and he's fond of greys in landscape and seascape, but no: too much white in the sea. The bobbly bits - has he perhaps painted in oil over some kind of texture paste, I wonder? And yes, the glazing and mounting is more suggestive of acrylics (and not of Malcolm) - though framing oils under glass has been done: I think it was that which reminded me of (Celia?) Brayfield: I have a couple of hers in acrylic, mounted and under glass..... Which is all very well but gets us no further forward. So yes - back to the exhibition organizers. (By the way, Mr bloke - most of us could do something like that, if you're that keen........ tempt, hint...)

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Robert Jones, Napa

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To be honest, I can't see any resemblance at all between Colin Halliday's work and the artist above - but he's certainly inexpensive: far, far TOO inexpensive: hard to see how his prices cover the cost of his paint and supports..... Colin lad, put your prices up!
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Robert Jones, Napa

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Ah, one mystery solved: these are Giclée prints, not paintings.

Haidee-Jo Summers VPROI RSMA

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Oh I see! I was also wondering how one could use such a thick application of oil paint and yet charge such low prices!
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Robert Jones, Napa

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Hang on, massive confusion here. The Giclée prints are those pictures on the site to which Haidee-Jo Summers linked, NOT, so far as I can see anyway, your paintings - which might be acrylic or oil, and my guess now would be acrylic, though they could be either. Do not let us sidetrack you! And good luck with finding your mystery artist.

Haidee-Jo Summers VPROI RSMA

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Thanks for letting us know Les, we were very curious! I hadn't heard of him so I took a look at his website... at £10 for a framed original acrylic painting I guess I can believe the claim that he 'regularly sells out' at fairs - crikey!

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Robert Jones, Napa

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Les, do have a go yourself - plenty of advice available here: just for a start, you could do worse than looking through some of the older threads. But how I agree with Haidee-Jo on pricing - OK, this was a small painting, but £10 for a picture that's framed and glazed? I couldn't afford to do that even if I'd framed a bit of painted paper in a ready-made photo-frame. Anyway, there we are - if that's what Colin Hudson usually charges, he's doing professional artists absolutely no favours at all - I can't see how he's even paying for his paint at that price. Thanks for letting us know.
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