Page 32 - Studio International - November 1966

Above St Michael's Mount with Yellow Sailing Boats Opposite top Three-Master Under Sail
Kettles Yard Collection, Cambridge Collection: Adrian Stokes
Wallis's theory of colours was described by him in a It was a frequent practice of Wallis to leave bare
letter of November 30, 1935, to H. S. Ede: 'i do not whole areas of the paper or board, making use of its
to put Collers what do not belong i Think i(t) spoils natural colour or texture, as with the purple sheet of
The pictures Their have Been a lot of paintins paper on which the three-master is painted. As he
spoiled By putin Collers where They do not wrote to H. S. Ede on April 24, 1929, 'i thought it not
Blong. . . nessery to paint it all around so i never Don it.'

Opposite centre St lves with Godrevy Lighthouse
Collection: Adrian Stokes
Wallis, himself a fisherman in his young days, loved
to think back to the time when St Ives Harbour was
full of fishing boats and pilchards were caught
off-shore in seine nets. (In this painting the nets
appear centre foreground.) A recurrent theme in
Wallis's letters was: 'i do most what used to Be
what we shall see no more everyThing is altered'-
letter to H. S. Ede, February 9, 1934.

Opposite bottom Fishing Boat at Sea
Collection: Adrian Stokes