A Letter

I think Graeme Clark needs to be told, again, that if he does not understand or like or accept a painting, that does not mean the painting is incomprehensible or ugly or ideologically loaded. I take his admission of his own stupidity as proved; yet I cannot accept that this is a particularly startling condemnation of Wollaston's painting's). He is very sure that when he speaks, he is representing the sentiments of the people he works with. I would not be suprised to discover that their lack of interest, generally, in painting like Wollaston's, is only equalled by their lack of interest in 'philosophy' like Mr. Clarke's. The self pity evident in Mr. Clarke's letter is, I am sure, all his own.

Martin Edmond