Haydn Dickenson
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
- 2 min
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
- 2 min
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
- 5 min
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
- 3 min
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
- 3 min
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
- 2 min
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
- 3 min
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
- 4 min
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
- 3 min
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
- 2 min
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
- 1 min
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
- 4 min
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 4
- 2 min
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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Haydn Dickenson
- May 19
- 4 min
BURN BABY BURN
Look out at the night sky and, if you are like me, be humbled and grounded by the vastness and majesty that you drink in with your eyes;...
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Haydn Dickenson
- May 10
- 2 min
DOWN, DOWN, DOWN
Many years ago, during a particularly difficult time in my life, I embarked on a course of hypnotherapy. I remember my therapist, when...
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Haydn Dickenson
- May 10
- 2 min
STAGES AND CHANGES
Each time I paint, I am conscious of how the act, the process, the sensations and the outcome are never the same. Recently I have been...
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Haydn Dickenson
- May 6
- 2 min
AN INVITATION TO COMPLETE...
Bridget Riley, now 92 years of age and a doyenne of the British Op Art (Optical Art) movement, has stated: “My work is completed by the...
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Haydn Dickenson
- May 6
- 4 min
KEROSENE AND A LIT MATCH: AN INTERPRETATION OF PICASSO
The name 'Picasso' is on the lips of anyone invited to name a famous artist. He has even become the subject of a thousands-fold...
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