
Luke Batterham
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TRENCHANT ADVICE ON PAINTING, addressed to the young painter Jeffrey Camp, fellow native of Suffolk, future Royal Academician and teacher at the Slade: "You must follow the growth outwards of a tree. It is easy to see it when you really look for it. All nature radiates from centres in growth & this helps design. Growth is design. That would have been a fine picture had you known more what to do... Then again that left hand sky is intense blue & goes off to right to the sunset – Blue too raw & intense – the eye couldn't take in all that width of sky – or rather you wouldn't see such a sudden change in that length of landscape... Perhaps I can find you a brush. If you take an old hog & cut it thinner & shorter & drag it down in a flowing line that will do it... Get on with it. You have it in you & can beat the rest if you use your eyes".