Denis Pickles

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Denis, I am really enjoying the view into your sketchbooks. Some of it, in my view, is stunning work. It is also inspiring to me. I have an A4 sketch book ... but it is not full of very much! Perhaps I should be more disciplined.

Posted by Gudrun Ståhl Sharpley on Thu 25 Apr 07:34:20

My sketch books sort of evolved. I think that they took on a different feel when I realised that it didn't really matter what I produced. It was for my enjoyment - no one else's! There are lots of pages with 'failures' on them. So what?

Posted by Denis Pickles on Thu 25 Apr 08:31:53

I too love sketch books Denis . What a joy for you to have them going back into the dim and distant.... ( are you related to Wilfred ? ) This is splendid..

Posted by Sylvia Evans on Thu 25 Apr 09:54:27

This is a lovely drawing from when you were a boy Denis, back in 1949 eh and a mapping pen with Indian Ink, that must have been a much more organised art department in that school than they ever where when I was at secondary school back in the early to mid 1970's!

Posted by Ros Patterson on Fri 26 Apr 10:37:11

Obviously showing that you have had talent right from an early age!! Great drawing.

Posted by Thea Cable on Wed 01 May 10:37:36

Hang on Studio Wall

31/03/2015

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This is an oldie! It must be the only surviving piece of work from my schooldays. I drew this as art homework back in 1949 using a mapping pen and a bottle of Indian Ink.

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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 83 years 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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