| Description | Details of paintings of faces concentrating on the eyes.
Jonathan Huxley cycling in central London. Jennifer Maskell Packer filling bucket with water and going off into fields. Huxley says he has nystagmus and photophobia, which means he can never focus his eyes properly and is acutely light-sensitive. Arriving at the Royal Academy School. Details from some of his paintings. Mansel Griffith says he only understood the extent of the impairment to his eyesight in his teens. Preparing a canvas. Describing his vision – many floaters, which, as a child he thought were the molecules of the air. Maskell Packer with her goat. She describes her vision, central vision only in one eye, and the ability to distinguish light and dark in the other which now also has a cataract growing across it. She paints best when using only one eye. Huxley in art school. He talks about his latest project, a series of prints and paintings about the Atherstone Ball Game. Photographs of the game in progress. Lino cutting and inking; taking a print. Talks about his eyesight. |
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