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Roger Vincent Dixon Born in Dublin, Ireland 1943. Studied painting, ceramics and the history of Art at the Poole School of Art, Dorset England. Degree course painting at the Royal West of England Academy, Bristol. Exhibited Percy Thomas Architecture partnership, 1988 St. Ives, Cornwall, 1989 Beaux’s Art, Bath, Somerset, 1995 Moved to Tavira, Portugal December, 2005. Exhibited Club Leoes de Tavira, 2006 Studio20, Tavira, 2006 email: rogervincentdixon@yahoo.co.uk mobile: (00351)65674903 reqeusted by my friend and web designer matthijs warner to say a few words, here they are...... an attempt to unlock some secrets im not sure why i paint, it has a close relationship with confidence levels a form of cleaning as constable said.intention is important, what you want to do is more important than what you do. forcing yourself to use restricted means is a restraint that liberates invention. it obliges you to make progress unimaginable in advance. if your work cannot live in the present it has little value. a painter cant expect an onlooker to feel the same about your work as you do. an idea for a picture comes from a long way to reach you, the next day you cant see what you have done. how can anyone enter my dreams my thoughts desires? which have taken a long time to mature and come out into the daylight, and above all grasp what i have been about-perhaps against my own will. anything of great value-creation, a new idea-carries its shadow zone with it. you have to accept it that way. otherwise there is only the stagnation of inaction. but every action has an implicit share of negativity. there is no escaping it, every positive value has its price in negative terms and you never see anything very great which is not at the same time, horrible in some respect. the genius of einstein leads to hiroshima. |
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