«(...)Burra observed fields, mountains and valleys as passing impressions through his car window. His attention was also caught by smog-belching power stations and collieries as well as newly built motorways, which had become a common feature of Britain’s changing landscapes. His sister would stop periodically so he could study the view intensely. Burra’s friend Billy Chappell sometimes joined them. Chappell was struck by the artist’s uncanny memory and eye for detail:
It fascinated me to watch Edward when the car halted by some especially splendid spread of hills, moorland, and deep valleys. He sat very still and his face appeared completely impassive … I do not remember Edward ever making any sort of note: not even the faintest scribble; yet weeks, even months later, the shapes, the tones; the actual atmosphere; and the colour of the clouded skies looming above those moors, hills, and valleys he had looked at so intently, would appear on paper.
Billy Chappell (...)». Saiba mais.
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