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Joan painting under a washing line, Catterline.<br />
Photograph by Audrey Walker<br />
“<strong>The</strong> place that I chose to paint in Glasgow is really just a little community<br />
– a little back street where everyone knows everyone and <strong>the</strong> same thing<br />
seems to be <strong>the</strong> case in <strong>the</strong> village where I live in <strong>the</strong> North-East.<br />
“I find that <strong>the</strong> more I know a place or <strong>the</strong> more I know a particular spot,<br />
<strong>the</strong> more I find to paint. I very <strong>of</strong>ten find that I take my paints to a certain<br />
place, begin to paint <strong>the</strong>re, and perhaps by <strong>the</strong> end <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> summer I have<br />
not moved from that place. In fact I have worn a kind <strong>of</strong> mark in <strong>the</strong> ground<br />
– <strong>the</strong>re is no grass left. I just leave my paints <strong>the</strong>re overnight and eventually<br />
a studio seems to have arrived outside. I might just turn round in <strong>the</strong><br />
middle <strong>of</strong> a painting and see something else and run back and get ano<strong>the</strong>r<br />
canvas and do that, but it is still <strong>the</strong> same spot really, <strong>the</strong> same feeling that<br />
I am trying to grasp.”<br />
Joan Eardley, RSA by Cordelia Oliver, Mainstream Publishing Company<br />
(Edinburgh) Ltd, 1988, p76<br />
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