Diary extracts for May 1948
3rd May 1948:
Started painting seascape 20x24 probably called The Return ostensibly for Schools Exhibition next month.
5th May 1948:
Letter from Nan Kivell saying Cptn Newman had bought Remembrance of Things Past at the RA.
Very good news as I haven’t sold anything apart from commissions for ages.
7th May 1948:
Painting all day on ‘The Return, made no progress whatever. Most humiliating.
14th May 1948:
Started a small painting of 2 tigers for the Schools Show, but it may not come to anything.
25th May 1948:
Packed up 3 paintings for the ‘Paintings for Schools’ show at the Tate. The Return (seascape) 20x24, ‘12th Night’ and ‘Tigers’
28th May 1948:
Painting all day on the ‘Chapel’ picture which looks as though it is slowly going ahead, as the tonality is all there. The thing is to indicate the structure as subtly as possible keeping the whole luminous with restricted colour.