6/19/2023 0 Comments Laurie lee novel cider with‘Laurie Lee – the Artist’ is at the Works on Paper Fair, Royal Geographical Society, London SW7, 11 to 14 February ( worksonpaperfair. “I don’t think he thought he was any good at art, but then he didn’t think his writing was any good at the beginning. “He would be very surprised at having an art exhibition, and also very pleased and rather embarrassed,” claims Jessy. And as far as she knows, he didn’t give any artworks away, “but you never know”. Jessy doesn’t think she will find any more of his artworks, even though there is still “so much chaos” in the Slad cottage. Laurie Lees deft but sublime summarisation of his mother tells you. A series of decorative and stylish nudes show clear comparisons with the art of Henri Matisse.” She was an artist, a light-giver, and an original, and she never for a moment knew it. “As well as Picasso emerging as an enduring influence on Lee’s style, other influences emerge elsewhere through his many artist friends, such as in the vibrant colouring of Sir Matthew Smith or the primitivism of Sir Jacob Epstein (evident in a work like Nude Figure with Green Hair, 1937).
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