Gretta Bowen A Night at Home ca. 1951-56 oil on panel Ulster Museum, Belfast |
Charles James McCall Maquillage ca. 1952 oil on canvas Usher Gallery, Lincoln |
Terence Cuneo Colonel and Mrs. Vere Cotton 1952 oil on canvas Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
Glynn Porteous Scullery Sink ca. 1954 oil on board Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art |
Alberto Morrocco The Attic Bedroom 1955 oil on canvas McManus Gallery, Dundee, Scotland |
Arthur Armstrong Bedroom at Ballylough ca. 1956 oil on canvas Ulster Museum, Belfast |
Another Thing
Like fossil shells embedded in a stone,
you are an absence, rimmed calligraphy,
a mouthing out of silence, a way to see
beyond the bedroom where you lie alone.
So why not be the vast, antipodal cloud
you soloed under, riven by cold gales?
And why not be the song of diving whales,
why not the plosive surf below the road?
The others are one thing. They know they are.
One compass needle. They have found their way
and navigate by perfect cynosure.
Go wreck yourself once more against the day
and wash up like a bottle on the shore,
lucidity and salt in all you say.
– David Mason (2013)
Carel Weight Interior ca. 1958 oil on canvas Royal West of England Academy, Bristol |
Dan Stephen The Painter's Studio 1961 oil on canvas Touchstones Rochdale, Lancashire |
John Lessore Woman Writing at a Desk ca. 1966 oil on canvas University of York |
Frederick Cuming Veranda, Evening ca. 1972 oil on board Williamson Art Gallery and Museum, Birkenhead, Merseyside |
Anthony Green Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Joscelyne - The Second Marriage 1972 oil on board Ulster Museum, Belfast |
Anthony Green My Mother alone in her Dining Room 1975-76 oil on board Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich |
Sally Moore Figure in a Studio ca. 1983 oil on canvas Sunderland Museum and Winter Garden, Tyne and Wear |
Tom Dixon Self Portrait 1986 oil on panel Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
Leonard Rosoman The Painter Richard Eurich in his Studio 1988 acrylic on canvas Bradford Museums and Galleries, Yorkshire |