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Berwick-upon-Tweed
The town is solid stone, cheerfully sincere and beautifully situated on the convergence of the Tweed and the sea. It would have been a perfect painting place if the wind had been less strong. The choice of restaurants is not large. There are shops which seem to have been transplanted from the early sixties- traditional butchers or fish and chip shops.
Accents change sharply in from place to place in the UK. There seemed to be no gradation between the Geordie and the Border Scots.
This lovely town was visited and painted by Lowry- the authorities have marked the places where he painted with information boards. I saw a fine small exhibition at Berwick Visual Arts called Scottish Colourists from the Fleming Collection, which included these lively, unpretentious pictures:
George Leslie Hunter, Lower Largo, Fife, oil on Millboard, 1919
George Leslie Hunter, Peonies in a Chinese Vase, oil on board, 1925
Often there are traces of art deco stylisation in the paintings of the twenties.
J.D. Fergusson, The Drift Posts, oil on canvas, 1922
Samuel John Peploe, Luxembourg Gardens, oil on panel, 1910
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