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BODIES: MONSTROUS OR MAGNIFICENT, AND THE USE OF PHOTOS AS PAINTING REFERENCE.
I knew an amazing lady, now sadly deceased, who was celebrated as a doyenne of the British film industry. That lady was Renée Glynne, and...
Haydn Dickenson
Jul 14, 20244 min read
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KEEPING IT IN THE FAMILY.
I have a friend – though sadly we have been out-of-touch for a while – who had a cat named Edgar. This, she said, was in tribute to the...
Haydn Dickenson
Nov 12, 20234 min read
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MEANING WHAT?
I frequently find myself bracing, inwardly, for the question “What does it mean?” “Haydn”, they ask, “what were you thinking about while...
Haydn Dickenson
Aug 13, 20235 min read
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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...
Haydn Dickenson
Jun 25, 20231 min read
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TO FRAME OR NOT TO FRAME?
That really is “the question”, or at least one of them. To me, framing is an intensely personal matter, so over the years I have usually...
Haydn Dickenson
Apr 24, 20233 min read
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THE INFLUENCE OF MUSIC ON MY WORK
Another of my readers has kindly taken up the baton that I presented in my twenty-first post, ANY REQUESTS? and asked me a question....
Haydn Dickenson
Feb 24, 20233 min read
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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...
Haydn Dickenson
Jan 12, 20235 min read
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CAN ART EVER BE TRULY ORIGINAL?
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...
Haydn Dickenson
Sep 23, 20224 min read
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