Joan Eardley

Autumn Flowers and Seed-heads

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About this artwork

Eardley loved to work in the open air and to get to know one particular spot through the seasons. Speaking about the small Scottish coastal village of Catterline in a 1961 interview she said: ‘When I’m painting in the north-east I hardly ever move out of the village, I hardly ever move from one spot; I find that the more I know of a place, or of one particular spot, the more I find to paint in that particular spot. I do feel the more you know of something, the more you can get out of it, the more it gives to you.’

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Joan Eardley

Joan Eardley