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Haydn Dickenson
20 hours ago4 min read
MAKING IT UP AS YOU GO.
Firstly, you are reading the 100th article to flutter down from the windows of 'Artfully Abstracted Towers' – any bottles of Champagne...
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Haydn Dickenson
Dec 101 min read
READ ALL ABOUT IT!
As this column reaches its first century (the article to follow this one will be the 100th!), it's time for some shameless plugging....
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Haydn Dickenson
Nov 224 min read
BON APPETIT
There are a few paintings hanging in galleries across the world that hold a legendary, almost folkloric attraction. People make...
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Haydn Dickenson
Nov 192 min read
CHARCOAL DUST AND IMPASTO PEAKS
Last week, on November 11th 2024, the world lost Frank Auerbach, one of the greatest figurative painters of our time. He was 93. Auerbach...
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Haydn Dickenson
Nov 34 min read
WHERE IT ALL BEGAN
In 1983 I graduated from Reading University, necessitating a return to the prison of my family home. Subversion was impossible. Any...
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Haydn Dickenson
Oct 203 min read
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THINGS...
“ The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes”. (André Gide) I studied a Gide text for my French 'A'...
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Haydn Dickenson
Oct 142 min read
EXHIBITION FEVER
I have recently enjoyed a 'mini-holiday' (much-needed) in the form of a visit by a dear friend from Germany. In anticipation of our my...
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Haydn Dickenson
Sep 82 min read
SMALL THINGS BROUGHT TOGETHER.
Vincent Van Gogh said (maybe) “Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.” Whether Vincent Van penned or uttered...
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Haydn Dickenson
Sep 81 min read
IN MEMORIAM BIG MAN
A few of you know that, just over three weeks ago, my brother-in-law passed away after the sudden onset of a short but horrific...
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Haydn Dickenson
Aug 132 min read
WITH GUSTO, OR BEING CAGEY?
Some of the best quotes are never fully attributable to any one individual. Either that or their words and/or essence have been massaged...
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Haydn Dickenson
Aug 115 min read
NEW BOOTS AND PAINTINGS.
Well guys, this is now a nonagenarian site! It's taken me just under two years, but here we are on the ninetieth piece of artistic...
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Haydn Dickenson
Jun 274 min read
THE KING'S DEMONS, JESUS IN THE CLOUDS, AND LOVE HEARTS IN THE TREES
When the new, pretty striking, portrait of King Charles was unveiled, I was kept entertained for some time by searching and reading...
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Haydn Dickenson
May 253 min read
DON'T LOOK 'FOR' – LOOK PASSIVELY!
The concise and magnificent words in today's title came from the mouth of Jackson Pollock, one of the greatest, most influential and...
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Haydn Dickenson
May 202 min read
EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS BY UP AND COMING UK ABSTRACT ARTIST HAYDN IN HISTORIC ENGLISH VILLAGE
Once again, people, apologies for the change in 'title-style'. I'm still trying to find the format that brings the best engagement to my...
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Haydn Dickenson
May 62 min read
IN MEMORIAM FRANK STELLA – AND SOME THOUGHTS ON SEAN SCULLY
May 4th saw the passing of the prominent American artist Frank Stella. Born in Malden, Massachusetts, in 1936, this highly distinctive...
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Haydn Dickenson
Apr 282 min read
EXHIBITION NEWS AND A NEW PAINTING
Good evening to all my readers from a cold, damp UK, where the term 'April Showers' seems to be taking the proverbial, so to speak......
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Haydn Dickenson
Apr 234 min read
ON SOME THOUGHTS OF HENRY MOORE AND OTHERS AND A FASCINATING AUSTRIAN ARTIST.
First of all, today's post is the 'weighty eighty' – the eightieth post in this column since its inception twenty months ago. For this...
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Haydn Dickenson
Apr 192 min read
THE HAYDN ROOM.
Greetings to all my followers at what really should be the beginning of Spring here in the UK – how is it in your other respective...
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Haydn Dickenson
Dec 19, 20231 min read
SHOOT!
This will probably be the last post of 2023, so may I begin by thanking you all for your support – and input – over the past year. Happy...
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Haydn Dickenson
Nov 2, 20231 min read
ME AND MY CRAZY MIND
Well, not me or my mind, particularly – though some might consider the title apposite! Instead, I refer to https://www.thecrazymind.com/,...
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