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Margaret Mellis talks of her life and art with grace and intellectual acuity. Music and image, documentary and poetic evocation illuminate a vivid picture of her determined pursuit of...
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- Concord Media
A dedicated abstract painter and superb colourist, Margaret produced a unique body of work during her later life in Suffolk. Her true legacy has yet to be fully realized. Using recordings from Lives (British Library Sound Archive), the film is told entirely in Margaret's own words, with her writings and diary entries read by Susannah York.
Nov 17, 2021 · Margaret Mellis talks of her life and art with grace and intellectual acuity. Music and image, documentary and poetic evocation illuminate a vivid picture of her determined pursuit of artistic and emotional truth, a vocation that gas always had or her an ethical imperative.
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- Concord Media
Jul 1, 2008 · Margaret Mellis a life in colour is a documentary completed in 2008 to coincide with a major exhibition of Margaret's work at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich. Mellis was born in China to Scottish parents and moved to Britain when she was one year old.
- Sue Giovanni
- 2008-07-01
- Documentary
- Susannah York
A dedicated abstract painter and superb colourist Margaret produced a unique body of work during her later life in Suffolk. Her true legacy has yet to be fully realised. Using recordings from Artists’ Lives (British Library Sound Archive) the film is told entirely in Margaret’s own words, with her writings and diary entries read by Susannah ...
Mellis was renowned throughout her career as a colourist. While in St Ives under the influence of Nicholson she began to work in relief and collage, most notably Collage with Red Triangle II (1940) which was initially a gift for Naum Gabo and is now in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum. [6] [7]
Aug 7, 2008 · Mellis describes coming to St Ives with her husband Adrian Stokes
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