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Joan painting in a field, Catterline. Photograph by Audrey Walker Eardley painted a great variety of subjects at Catterline and a favourite was the cliff-top fields sometimes with a blasted hedgerow, beehives or the Watchie on the horizon. Sometimes also with seedheads pressed into the surface of the paint, or the paint surface deeply scored with palette knife or brush-end. Many of these works, expressionist in spirit, tachist in execution are also paeans to nature when the ill-health Joan was suffering lent a sharp, bittersweet poignancy to these highsummer works. 26
10 Flowers by the Wayside, c.1961 oil on canvas, 61 x 56 cms signed lower left and signed & titled on label verso “‘I’ve got a series of paintings going at the end of my old cottage.’ Joan wrote to Margot in 1962. ‘I never seem to find that I want to move. It’s a handy spot as no-one comes near and I can work away undisturbed. I just go on from one painting to another – just the grasses and the corn – it’s oats this year, barley it was last year. There’s a wee, windblown tree, and that’s all. But every day and every week it looks a bit different – the flowers come and the corn grows so it seems silly to shift about. I just leave my painting table out here and my easel and my palette.’” Joan Eardley, RSA by Cordelia Oliver, Mainstream Publishing Company (Edinburgh) Ltd, 1988, p76 27
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Page 6 and 7: Shipbuilder’s Street, c.1951 oil
Page 8 and 9: During her Travelling Scholarship f
Page 10 and 11: Balloch on Loch Lomond is a short j
Page 12 and 13: This energetic, heavily worked draw
Page 14: 4 French Fisherman, 1951 pastel, 12
Page 18: 6 Stonehaven Harbour, c.1952 Pen, i
Page 22: catterline Our friendship with Joan
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Page 30 and 31: Nets at Catterline with pulley at t
Page 32 and 33: Catterline’s stone pier was finis
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Page 36 and 37: “Had breakfast and am sitting on
Page 38: Townhead “Traditionally, painting
Page 42 and 43: 16 Tenement, c.1950 chalk on paper
Page 45 and 46: Children in Joan’s studio. Photog
Page 48 and 49: Drawn, quite typically, on three ov
Page 50 and 51: Child portraiture has always engage
Page 52 and 53: 50 Young girl on street biting her
Page 55 and 56: 22 Boy with a Fawn Jacket, c.1955-5
Page 57 and 58: Glasgow girl. Photograph by Joan Ea
Page 59 and 60: 24 The Pale Blue Jersey, c.1960 pas
Page 61 and 62: 25 The Striped Cardigan, 1962 paste
Page 63 and 64: 26 Sleeping Child, 1962 pastel on g
Page 65 and 66: 27 Child Study, c.1961 mixed media
Page 68 and 69: Children playing in the street. Pho
Page 70 and 71: This stunning painting is one of th
Page 72 and 73: Glasgow street with graffiti, door
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Page 76: JOAN EARDLEY by Christopher Andreae

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