A Life Discarded by Alexander Masters

Author:Alexander Masters [Masters, Alexander]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2016-04-11T04:00:00+00:00

She asked Mr Sturgess’s opinion about these impish coils as soon as possible, ‘so I could look at his wonderful eyes, and hear him talk, & be nice to me. He did talk.’

He declared the cut-outs ‘not art’.

Laura was charmed. Joining forces with a bunch of the teddy boys in the class, she got him stoked up about what was art:

He talked of what E spoke of, reaching after something one can’t get – he described it as ‘agony’. His temperament is wonderfully excitable – gets very worked up – a slight remark can make him ‘blow up’, wax mighty hot & passionate! What fire! He is marvellous. Can see him in my mind’s eye, weeping in his studio because he can’t get what he seeks – the ‘agony’ he spoke of.

Laura began to ‘forget myself, pour out my deeper thoughts. I am the most intellectual and cultured student in the class …’

‘Some of the things he said, I was rather out of my depth,’ she admits defiantly, but ‘I understood him better than the others – they asked such stupid questions – & when they all came up to listen, breathing heavily and open-mouthed, the magic circle was broken & came back to earth with a bump – “’Ow much d’yer get fer yer pintins, Sir?” ’

By the end of her year at Luton, life was peachy. Laura had won a place at Camberwell School of Art to study illustration. She and Sturgess had become friends. On her last day at the college she put on her favourite striped suit for him and they walked out of the class together to say goodbye in the car park.

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