Dame Laura Knight, who with her Go-odd pictures is uiving the biggest one-man show. of her scarcer ina London art, gallery, is one of our hardest working artists. Dame Laura thinks nothing of a 12-hour working day. For the moment she has abandoned circus folk as her pet Subject and the dominant theme of most of her recent paintings is the gipsy. Lately she has been visiting 8 gipsy camp daily from her London studio and returning home each even ing. "Her method is to work on a humber of pictures at once, so that she may never grow stale.
The worst—and the best—of these tremendously energetic people is that they usually expect to find a. corresponding fund of energy in others. Awheht Dame Laura wants to. paint Someone, nothing must. deter her. Pavlova' once posed for five whole minutes, standing on the point of one toe, with her other ley stretched off the' ground, in order that the artist could sketch hes.
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