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In 1959, Maurice Dickinson met George Campbell in London through his sister, Joyce, who
worked as a receptionist with Noreen Rice at the BBC. Fascinated with Flamenco music,
Dickinson formed a strong friendship with Campbell after attending his weekly flamenco
guitar lessons at his Maida Vale flat. After collecting his long-awaited Manuel Reyes guitar in
Malaga, Campbell gifted Dickinson his Francisco Dominguez guitar. Campbell persuaded
Dickinson to leave his job as a dispatch rider for the BBC and move to Malaga to pursue his
ambition of becoming a Flamenco guitarist.
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Attending Mollie Dillon’s parties at Abbey
Road, he met Campbell’s circle of friends – Armstrong, Dillon and Andalusia painter,
Enrique Pérez Almeda.
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Born in 1928 in Cordoba, Pérez Almeda was visiting London to
view the Modern Masters at the Tate Gallery and the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square.
Returning to Malaga, Campbell and Pérez Almeda shared their knowledge of painting
techniques and sometimes shared materials. Attending the School of Arts in Malaga, Pérez
Almeda was influenced by the Impressionists and the Post Impressionists. The friends often
met in Vicente Martín Bonilla’s bohemian bar ‘La Buena Sombra,’ a locus for writers and
artists, including Stefan Von Reiswitz and Jorge Lindell.
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Dickinson’s stage name was ‘Mauricio Dominquez’ after Campbell’s gift of his Francisco Dominquez guitar.
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Exhibiting his paintings on railings on Hyde Park, 1960 with other foreign artists, Campbell initiated a
conversation with him in Spanish.
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Born in 1930, Jorge Lindell Díaz founded ‘Collectivio Palmo’ with Reiswitz in 1978.
fig.143: Maurice Dickinson
fig.144: George Campbell and Enrique
Pérez Almeda, Seville, 1967
fig.145: George Campbell, Maurice Dickinson
and Robert McDonald ‘La Buena Sombra’,
1960’s
fig.146: Enrique Pérez Almeda artist Oswald
Cunningham and Maurice Dickinson, Hyde Park,
London, August, 1960