“……..when I try to imagine a faultless love
Or the life to come, what I
hear is the murmur
Of underground streams, what I see is a limestone
landscape.”
(In praise of Limestone, W. H. Auden)
Substitute chalk for limestone and see how Auden’s
lines apply to the essence that informs Leise Wilson’s paintings, how the
landscape of the Kent coast has educated her hand. It is fitting that she
should work in a studio situated in the shadow of the Turner Gallery in
Margate; Turner who worked from this same landscape.