Joan Eardley R.S.A.
Shelling Bait
Conte, pastel and watercolour
Signed
21 1/4 x 17 1/4 ins (54 x 44 cms)
SOLD
Exhibited
Joan Eardley Exhibition, Aitken Dott & Son, Edinburgh,
29th May - 10th June, 1961
Joan Eardley has described the satisfaction she got from drawing - a satisfaction quite distinct from the satisfaction she got from painting: 'drawing is a most satisfying, joyful thing. The contact which you get because you are still and quiet in one place; the things that move and carry out their daily happenings, they are unconscious of your existence. And then there is the drawing and the happiness of the occupied mind. Painting is different - at least I mean studio painting - the joy of work is there, of course, but it is balanced by the other more desperate times of depression and doubt and desolation'.