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Tudor-Craig is also an expert on the wild birds and their movements. She works for their preservation and habitat. It is this vision of the life within the wildness of our surroundings - with its vitality and variety - that has triggered Lil Tudor-Craig's art. The painting, in egg tempera on gessoed boards, is a servant to the subject-matter, rather than the other way round - as we find in much contemporary art where any chosen subject is treated as a convenient vehicle for the projected self-importance of the artist.
On the contrary; these paintings, of modest size and extreme sensitivity in handling, drawing and colour, are there as an expression of the importance of their subject-matter. There is accuracy and delicacy of touch and texture - and the quality of colour, subtle and never over-stated, but with every touch of the brush showing a vision and an authority. Each one constrains us to look at them with detailed attention for far longer than we would give to most of their painting contemporaries.
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