restrained and very painterly work of the Euston Road Group has proved to be well-nigh irresistible to others.
Roger de la Fresnaye once wrote: “Originality is a myth. If an artist is a follower he imitates; if an
innovator he still imitates with modifications, or else he goes contrary to whatever obsesses him.” A young
painter must have some starting point, some set of guiding principles that he can borrow—temporarily, until he really finds himself—from that painter or
JOHN CRAXTON “Painter’s Landscape”
MICHAEL AYRTON
“Gethsemane”. (Collection of John Lehmann, Esq.)