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When you work on your own, which we do, in separate studios at either end of our house, and then meet for older students lunch and coffee, you’ve always got something that’s worth getting an opinion about. And it is nice to have a sympathetic ear.’ Their secret — both in art and life — seems to be older students an ability not to tread on each other’s toes. They older students are repeatedly called ‘quintessentially English artists’, and when I ask them about this they nod. But what does Englishness in art actually mean? It is not just their traditional subjects — landscapes, flowers and figure studies — but the way they handle them, capturing nuances of time and space, light and nature in paint. In Bernard’s work we see references to Sickert and in Diana’s to William Nicholson. ‘Maybe it’s our lack of panache,’ offers Bernard, ever self-deprecating.
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