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Haydn Dickenson
Jul 144 min read
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...
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Haydn Dickenson
Nov 12, 20234 min read
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...
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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
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
Apr 24, 20233 min read
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...
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Haydn Dickenson
Feb 24, 20233 min read
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....
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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
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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