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Haydn Dickenson
Oct 21, 20231 min read
THE CENTRE IS EVERYWHERE
With a nod to Blaise Pascal, I would like to introduce today my new painting, THE CENTRE IS EVERYWHERE. This 40 x 40 cm oil painting...
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Haydn Dickenson
Oct 14, 20233 min read
ACROSS THE WATER
In the early years of the twentieth century, the great Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff had been searching for inspiration for a...
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Haydn Dickenson
Sep 29, 20232 min read
MORE LIGHT, PLEASE.
There is a great deal of music, both in my erstwhile professional genre of classical piano, and in other very diverse forms, which...
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Haydn Dickenson
Sep 28, 20234 min read
TWO MASTERS OF LIGHT.
I'm going to be honest. I've just discovered a 'new' artist, courtesy of my Windows 10 Lock Screen. It will never do to be pretentious...
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Haydn Dickenson
Sep 24, 20234 min read
BALANCING TWO CAREERS.
Today I am delighted to welcome to my column the second of my Guest Writers, Petra Teršlová, from Kladno, in the Czech Republic. I first...
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Haydn Dickenson
Sep 18, 20232 min read
BLOOMING BLOOMSBURY.
As some of you know, I consider the Languedoc in Southern France to be my spiritual home. The Languedoc is, for me, about primeval...
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Haydn Dickenson
Sep 8, 20232 min read
ON THE UP!
I opened my Instagram this morning, expecting to find the usual ridiculous plethora of bot comments inviting me to sell my work as NFT....
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Haydn Dickenson
Aug 26, 20232 min read
PAINTING ON THE FRAME, AND A BIRTHDAY.
The great English abstractionist Howard Hodgkin passed away in 2017. Had he lived, he would have been 91 on 6th August this year. Apart...
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Haydn Dickenson
Aug 13, 20235 min read
MEANING WHAT?
I frequently find myself bracing, inwardly, for the question “What does it mean?” “Haydn”, they ask, “what were you thinking about while...
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Haydn Dickenson
Aug 7, 20233 min read
ON HOLES AND OTHER MATTERS
For many years, I have been naggingly interested in the artistic idea of creation through destruction. In my painting EMERGENT INTIMACY,...
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Haydn Dickenson
Jul 29, 20233 min read
ON STYLE AND APPROACH.
Regular and long-standing readers may remember earlier articles in which I have spoken of my creative process; of the very first fizzing...
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Haydn Dickenson
Jul 24, 20232 min read
THE BIG FIVE - O!
Something a little irreverent (though not intentionally irrelevant) for today – I'm allowed to, for today's post marks this blog's...
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Haydn Dickenson
Jul 23, 20233 min read
ART AND ALL THAT JAZZ
I am a Jazz enthusiast. As many of you know, I had a former career as a concert pianist; I no longer play concerts, though I continue to...
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Haydn Dickenson
Jul 23, 20234 min read
WHAT WAS IN THE PUNCHBOWL?
On May 1st, my guest writer, the outstanding ceramicist Helen Long wrote powerfully about influences and revelations that coloured the...
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Haydn Dickenson
Jul 16, 20233 min read
ANYONE FOR FRUIT?
Some of you know that I have not been in a good 'headspace' recently. I have a few issues going on at present, in addition to a physical...
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Haydn Dickenson
Jul 4, 20232 min read
EDGING TOWARDS THE FIFTY
No, not me – I passed the half-century a long time ago, but this blog; in a few posts' time we'll have reached 50 together! Thank you all...
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Haydn Dickenson
Jun 25, 20231 min read
HOT HOT HOT!
As you all know, I like to keep posts coming on a roughly weekly basis, sometimes even more enthusiastically even than that! Here's one...
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Haydn Dickenson
Jun 20, 20234 min read
ALL CHANGE
The British artist Tracey Emin has always been a polarising figure. It is not my intention to offer any kind of general critique on...
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Haydn Dickenson
Jun 8, 20232 min read
ADIEU
The death has recently been announced of the French painter Françoise Gilot, at the age of 101. Françoise Gilot STILL LIFE WITH FLOWERS...
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Haydn Dickenson
Jun 4, 20232 min read
MY OWN TRUMPET
I am not known, usually, for blowing it – my own trumpet, that is! Today though, I decided to do so in a gentle way, perhaps a little...
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