Stanley Spencer - ACE088.7

Port Glasgow (1944) and another painting. Scenes in Glasgow cemetery; VO talking about the inspiration for the Port Glasgow Resurrection series (1947-1950): one of the paintings. Film of Spencer [Pathe News: Royal Academy Take Back Old Rebel, January 1950] getting out of bed, fully dressed, lighting stove, cottage, a "Stanley" writing pad, pages from notebook; VO talking about this period and about Hilda; Love Letters (1950); VO points out that this was the year Hilda died. Water. Film of Spencer pushing his materials on pram; notebook pages; Cookham Moor (1937); Love on the Moor (1937-1955); VO continues to talk about Hilda and the experience of being on the Moor. Photographs of Spencer; film of him painting something from the Christ Preaching at Cookham Regatta series (1953-1959; VO says that after marrying Hilda and his work expanding to "include so much besides the divine vision", he felt "more involved with the created than the Creator", and finding his own "special God". The river; Dinner on the Hotel Lawn (1956-1957); Spencer VO talking about the regatta itself, and about the paintings; VO saying that he, "making love to everyone" is the same as the preaching Christ figure: The Elders; unfinished painting; Listening from Punts (1954). Photograph of Spencer working on the unfinished painting. Self Portrait (1959). Commentary quotes last writing: "I’m never weary; I’m never bored. Sadness and sorrow are not me." Spencer VO talking about not being "special" but having maintained his "sense of wonder". Credits.