Haydn Dickenson
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 8
- 1 min
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 13
- 2 min
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 11
- 5 min
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
- Jul 14
- 4 min
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
- Jul 1
- 3 min
A DEEP AND MYSTERIOUS LANGUAGE
Colour influences our lives at every turn. We decide what colour to paint the walls in our homes, which colour to choose for our car, or...
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Haydn Dickenson
- Jun 27
- 4 min
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
- Jun 26
- 1 min
HELLO STRANGERS!
Hanging my head in shame, I see it has been over a month since I last posted. The past few weeks have not been easy, and I have not felt...
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Haydn Dickenson
- May 25
- 3 min
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 20
- 2 min
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 17
- 1 min
EMERGING ACCLAIMED UK ABSTRACT ARTIST HAYDN AT PRESTIGIOUS SOUTHERN ENGLAND GALLERY
Just a quick post for today, and it's one of those trumpet-blowing ones, I'm afraid! I'm extremely excited and honoured to have been...
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Haydn Dickenson
- May 6
- 2 min
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 28
- 2 min
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 23
- 4 min
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 19
- 2 min
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
- Apr 6
- 3 min
AGNES MARTIN AND THE NON-MEANING OF ART.
Regular readers will know that a hobby-horse of mine is the – in my view, unfortunate - collective expectation that abstract art must...
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Haydn Dickenson
- Apr 5
- 2 min
CONTEMPORARY ABSTRACT ART SHOW BY EMERGING ARTIST HAYDN
In November 2023, I wrote about an important series of paintings that I created during the previous year https://www.artfullyabstractedbl...
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Haydn Dickenson
- Mar 26
- 5 min
FROM THE HIP
Firstly, apologies for the absence of activity in this column for well over a month. I have been going through some stressful times, and...
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Haydn Dickenson
- Feb 16
- 1 min
M & M
Just a short post today, about a remarkable artistic lineage which set me thinking this morning. Around 1920, Claude Monet painted a...
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Haydn Dickenson
- Feb 13
- 3 min
WITHOUT END.
In 2021, I produced an oil painting entitled WITHOUT END. It represented, to a degree, a new departure from the approach I was currently...
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