Diary extracts for July 1946
2nd Jul 1946:
. . . got down to the 2nd subject on the river which has been worrying me for some time. I think I have solved the problem by blending 2 view points which will bring it into a longways canvas instead of an upright, which I didn’t want to do.
[King's Cambridge Looking Eastwards from the Backs and Trinity College, The Wren Library and River Cam]
3rd Jul 1946:
In Cambridge
A terrific thunderstorm late at night. A wonderful sight to see King's Chapel silhouetted against the sky with lightning, half the chapel being dimly lit by the lamp at the Porter’s Lodge streaking across the lawn. It only needed a mad organist playing some fantastic fugue by Liszt to complete the melodrama.’
3rd Jul 1946:
a large swan came buzzing over down on to the water in front of my subject this morning It was perfect, such a swoop and curve and stretch of wings.
6th Jul 1946:
To London to deliver framed escort carrier picture to G Barnes at the BBC.
24th Jul 1946:
[Two days] drawing at Oxford for Balliol picture. A hasty drawing of Lindsay (master of Balliol)
26th Jul 1946:
Motoring back from Balliol
Storms seem to be about, but did not pass through any myself. Later heard disastrous damage done to crops. The fates seem to be against food production in the most vital year of all time.