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Wolf Kahn Pastels

Jo Dalgety

Today I headed to Borders with my 30% discount voucher and bought this book, Wolf Kahn Pastels. I need to read something about this artist whom I first saw on an artist’s calendar years ago and whose paintings I love for their colour. Without reading anything of him, why he paints and what he paints I seem to have been influenced by him somehow. I had to choose between ‘Rita Angus’ and ‘Seen this Century’ and also a Mark Rothko book that looked delicious, but their turn will come. Opened the Wolf Kahn book and on page 9 there is … Continue reading Wolf Kahn Pastels

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Wolf Kahn again…

Jo Dalgety

After last year’s exhibition, someone mentioned that I should look at some of Wolf Kahn’s art work as mine reminded them of his. I’ve just done this and a little shocked. Back in 2007,  I used Wolf Kahn’s work for an exercise called ‘Conversation with an Artist’ – we had to paint one of our own painting’s but as if we had our chosen artist talking to us as we did so. My effort was this one called ‘Te Uku’. I haven’t looked at any of Wolf Kahn’s work since but take a look at these two paintings below – … Continue reading Wolf Kahn again…

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Wolf Kahn and Friesach

Jo Dalgety

After completing the Te Uku painting and getting so inspired, I wanted to do another painting ‘after Wolf Kahn’. Inspired by his ‘Deep Purple Barn’, I completed this painting of a building in the village of Friesach, Austria. The photo I took of this had scaffolding all over it, and other stuff, but I was fascinated by the windows. Windows and doors seem to be creeping into all my paintings lately, not sure why – just intrigued by their mystery I think. This painting was sold in 2007. Continue reading Wolf Kahn and Friesach

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Wolf Kahn and Te Uke

Jo Dalgety

One of the exercises from our course which really worked for me – picking an artist we liked, researching him/her and producing a painting as if we had had a conversation with him/her. I chose Wolf Kahn whose paintings I loved for their vibrant colour. My result was ‘Te Uku’ pictured here (now in the collection of Helen Findlater, Thames, New Zealand). After the research I had decided I didn’t admire Kahn as much as I had before. But this exercise made me think about my painting, it taught me a lot and started me on my current series, although you … Continue reading Wolf Kahn and Te Uke