Graham Sutherland - ACE003.2

Driving along a country lane. Commentary suggests that "The best of British painting is that which has kept alive our ancient association with Nature and expressed a poetic vision of our surroundings." Landscape scenes. A country road near Farningham, Kent. Painting being taken out of Graham Sutherland’s house; followed by Sutherland himself. Kathleen Sutherland cutting branches in the garden. Inside the Sutherland house showing interior decorations, objects on the mantelpiece, etc., including bones, thistles, crystals, and fossils, reflecting Sutherland’s interest in geology and natural history. Exhibition catalogues. Views from the studio window. Sutherland looking at some of his paintings prior to sending them away to an exhibition; commentary says the images are both familiar and unfamiliar, being of natural objects, filtered through the artist’s imagination. Paintings on show in London. Religious themed work: Christ carrying the cross. Smaller works. Landscape in Pembrokeshire, near St David’s Head; grasses, thorns, roots, leafless bushes, water, etc. Commentary says this area and these kinds of objects were influential on Sutherland’s work before the Second World War. Some of Sutherland’s paintings from this early period. Rowing boats at edge of river, winding country road. Representation in Sutherland’s work.