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Haydn Dickenson
Feb 13, 20231 min read
ANY REQUESTS?
Firstly, thank you all for your support both new and ongoing, which means a lot to me. I apologise for the relative lack of posts...
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Haydn Dickenson
Feb 5, 20232 min read
ABSTRACT ART AND DOODLING
I am celebrating a small Blog Milestone this evening – my twentieth post since I first set virtual pen to virtual paper in August last...
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Haydn Dickenson
Feb 5, 20234 min read
ABSTRACT ART AND STRUCTURE
While painting, I am constantly reminded of the way in which the brain 'works with itself' in calling up already-created elements in...
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Haydn Dickenson
Jan 25, 20233 min read
SCRATCHING THE SURFACE
It is always nice to have one's words endorsed, even in retrospect! In previous articles, I have written of my firm and independent...
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Haydn Dickenson
Jan 15, 20233 min read
FEMALE ARTISTS AND ABSTRACTION
As a keen enthusiast of the films of Stanley Kubrick. I had been aware of paintings by his artist wife, Christiane as seen in two of his...
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Haydn Dickenson
Jan 13, 20234 min read
IN RETROSPECT
I have painted all my life. Like most children, my earliest efforts were abstract ones! I went on to draw the obligatory houses and...
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Haydn Dickenson
Jan 12, 20235 min read
WHY WE NEED ABSTRACT ART TODAY
Ok, I'm biased. I am an abstract artist. I do a little figurative work – I used to do a lot more – sensual nude studies, mainly to...
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Haydn Dickenson
Dec 28, 20223 min read
ABSTRACT ART AND REALITY
As my regular readers are aware, I am largely self-taught, and proud of it. I painted from a very young age, encouraged by my mother who...
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Haydn Dickenson
Dec 20, 20223 min read
KANDINSKY, SCRIABIN, STEINER AND THE PRIMITIVE
Back in the late 1970's an incandescent recording of Alexander Scriabin's Fourth Piano Sonata was released by the Russian pianist Andrei...
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Haydn Dickenson
Dec 15, 20223 min read
THE SLOW REVEAL
“This is one of those paintings that I would see in an exhibition that would make me stop and look. Not because it hit me between the...
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Haydn Dickenson
Dec 4, 20223 min read
IN THE BEGINNING
My regular readers, friends, colleagues and clients know that I believe all artistic outpouring to come from the same well-spring of...
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Haydn Dickenson
Nov 26, 20222 min read
ART AS A MIRROR: JUNGIAN SYMBOLISM IN ABSTRACT PAINTING
Many things in life have taught me about myself. Adopting a rescue dog was one of these. Sadly my beautiful dog passed away eighteen...
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Haydn Dickenson
Nov 16, 20222 min read
SMALL BUT PERFECTLY FORMED?
What is the origin of this phrase that trips so lightly off the tongue? I associate it most closely with Pamela Stephenson's...
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Haydn Dickenson
Nov 2, 20223 min read
AND I QUOTE...
Back in the mid 1980's, I used to drink with the brilliant cartoonist and commercial artist Willem Van Beek (the Flying Dutchman as we...
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Haydn Dickenson
Oct 30, 20223 min read
MENTORS, ADMIRATION AND INSPIRATION
I want to start by invoking the name of an artist and teacher named Sargy Mann. I first came across this name in an RA magazine article...
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Haydn Dickenson
Oct 20, 20223 min read
RECENT EXPLORATIONS
I've been silent on this blog for a few weeks, but very active in the studio. My agent and I have been in regular contact, despite him...
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Haydn Dickenson
Sep 23, 20224 min read
ART AND ORIGINALITY
Art has always fired me up, even at a young age when my creative life was veering, due to paternal pressure, towards Music. As a boy, I...
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Haydn Dickenson
Sep 8, 20225 min read
MUSIC IN MARK-MAKING.
As some of you may know, before fully embracing my lifelong passion for the visual arts and making it my career, I was active as a...
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Haydn Dickenson
Sep 2, 20221 min read
ABSTRACT ART AND NATURE
WIEDERHOLUNG - Haydn Dickenson 2021 “The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep,...
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Haydn Dickenson
Aug 31, 20223 min read
SOME GERMAN ART, AND ABOUT CREATING THROUGH DESTROYING.
You'll not be surprised to learn that one of my favourite haunts is the Tate Modern on Bankside in London. With so many incredible...
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