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Nets at Catterline with pulley at top left. Photograph by<br />
Audrey Walker. <strong>Scottish</strong> National <strong>Gallery</strong> <strong>of</strong> Modern Art<br />
Archive, Edinburgh<br />
<strong>The</strong>re were several o<strong>the</strong>r versions <strong>of</strong> this subject in <strong>the</strong> 1965 <strong>exhibition</strong> at Roland Browse and<br />
Delbanco, no. 3 illustrated in <strong>the</strong> <strong>catalogue</strong> as Fishing Nets Drying no. II. It was clearly a subject<br />
which appealed greatly, and this informs us about her concerns as an artist. She is not just <strong>the</strong><br />
expressionist soul, wringing drama and emotion from her experience <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> world, but a sensitive<br />
picture maker who likes to get close to a subject, to go in deep to try to reveal some beauty and order<br />
in <strong>the</strong> chaos apparent in <strong>the</strong> nature or <strong>the</strong> happenstance <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> disposition <strong>of</strong> human detritus along<br />
<strong>the</strong> shore paths <strong>of</strong> Catterline. To choose such an unprepossessing subject and make great art from it<br />
speaks <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> artist’s modernism as well as her genius.<br />
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