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No inscription. A landscape from the top of moors in snow. The sea is a wash of blue-grey, fading to purple in the distance. This was an ideal day for painting the view, clear and bright, with a blue sky and fluffy cumulus clouds. The clouds are suggested by an absence of paint, as is most of the snow, but the moor to the left is painted with gouache. There are fields to the right, bordered with sweeps of brown representing the hedges. The puzzling feature is the swirl of blue in the foreground: it suggests a stream meandering uphill but may be merely a shadow cast by the feature beside it. This is possibly a view from the edge of Exmoor, overlooking the Bristol Channel. It is surrounded in the bound sketchbook by other paintings of Exmoor, but there are also many sketches from other years, particularly 1969 when Muriel Dawson had moved to Shetland. The chronology of this and her other sketchbooks and folders is discontinuous; she would often use a blank page or part of a page to add other sketches, sometimes many years later. From a sketchbook inscribed 'This Note Book - was bound in 1937 but not begun until 1938 - in July' on the first sheet, the second bears a small reversed triangular icon of the Dove of Peace with 'Veni Sancte Spiritus' across the top, in gouache. Part of a large unpublished collection of the work of Muriel Helen Dawson [1897-1974]. The collection was bequeathed to the Natural History Museum by the artist. It consists of many sketchbooks and loose and bound folders containing pencil sketches, watercolours and works in crayon and chalk of mainly fauna and flora from the United Kingdom, specifically the Shetland Islands, with some from other parts of the UK and a few from the Irish Republic. |
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