The Maltings at by Denis Pickles

The Maltings at
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Shape! That's where I painted this.

Or maybe Snape. I would favour this one too, nicely rendered. A shy blonde? Come off it.

Yes. You're right. It was Snape! I'm a forgetful, dyslexic typist! And the blonde remained hidden for most of the time.

Another super piece Dennis. I used to work in a college science department, our students spent all their time beavering away in hot stuffy labs, while the media studies lot would be following young girls (usually blond) around the place and in the town taking 'arty' photos. Perhaps these were from Snape college!

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27/09/2016
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Architectural subjects are probably my favourites. I'd settled down to paint the facade of the Maltings and five minutes into the drawing, a coach arrived and parked slap bang in front of me. That messed my plans up completely so I turned to the right and set about painting a group of four, two men and two ladies, who were busy photographing the younger lady in the archway. It turned out to be an instructional course in portrait photography. By the way, the subject matter, the blonde, pent most of her time hidden from my view in an alcove..

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Denis Pickles

I’ve been drawing and painting for a long, long time. The first picture I have still in my possession is dated November 1939 and 85years on I’m still at it! Keen on art at school and would have dearly liked a job with an art connection- I had hoped to get into architecture, but it did not happen.…

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