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A still-life with a Staffordshire huntsman. Pastel by Clive Hicks-Jenkins
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When you start looking there have been quite a number of 20th century artists who’ve been drawn to paint Staffordshire china, and there are a few contemporary artists, including me, who continue to be fascinated by the strange worlds that the figures evoke.
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Staffordshire dogs by Enid Marx (1902 – 1998)
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Many favour the iconic King Charles spaniels that have book-ended so many mantelpieces and dressers.
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Contemporary artist Alice Patullo’s wittily named Staffordshire Figurines for the Clumsy, are made out of printed and stuffed calico
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Staffordshire dog in a painting by Christopher Wood (1901 – 1930)
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Contemporary artist Rob Ryan’s take on Staffordshire cats
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The spirits of Ravilious, Nicholson, Wood and Wallis echo in the work of contemporary British artist Jonathan Christie. He uses chalky paint rubbed back, together with sgrafitto to create beautiful surfaces. Staffordshire figures are often a feature of his still-lifes
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Staffordshire in the work of contemporary painter Emily Sutton. Emily uses starved brush-work in the manner of Ravilious, but her work also reminds me of another woman artist who had a love of the ‘unsophisticated arts’, Barbara Jones
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Staffordshire group by contemporary graphic artist Laura Knight
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My friend, contemporary artist and illustrator Paul Bommer, here paints Staffordshire dogs onto a faux Delft tile
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While I’ve painted quite a few Staffordshire equestrian and equestrienne figures, for me it’s the weird juxtaposition of children with dogs the size of Shetland ponies, and shepherds and shepherdesses with sheep of Brobdingnagian proportions, that have proved themselves the subjects that I find most rewarding.
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Staffordshire dog with a boy in a Welsh landscape. Clive Hicks-Jenkins
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Staffordshire dog with a girl in a Cornish landscape. Clive Hicks-Jenkins
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Staffordshire horseman in Winter Garden. Clive Hicks-Jenkins
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A Staffordshire shepherd in The Boy and his Sheep. Clive Hicks-Jenkins
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I have some more Staffordshire still-life works coming along for my next exhibition, so watch this space.
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