The West Highlands and the Sound of Mull

In his preface to the 1951 exhibition, Stanley Cursiter wrote of the Colourists, 'How individual and distinctive these artists were. Peploe, a strategist in paint, quick to seize the accidental in nature and subject it to the ordered demands of art; or patient to build, step by step, the elements of his harmony. Cadell, spontaneous and gay, for him nature in her brightest dress was the reflection of his own joy in the paints on his palette. Leslie Hunter, with his heart singing a high note, dashing at his canvas in impetuous haste, eager to capture the quivering thought while it still glowed'.