The Night Stages by Jane Urquhart

Author:Jane Urquhart [Urquhart, Jane]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780771094446
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Published: 2015-04-07T04:00:00+00:00

Kenneth began his classwork with a scene from the Eddy Match Factory, which stood on the edge of a river near his home. With faint pencil lines and geometric washes of watercolour, he blocked out the composition on a long, narrow piece of paper. The group of men approaching the factory was just a vague grey column at this point, the shape of it echoing the curve of the river below. But he would somehow put the anger into the next version. He didn’t know how, but he was determined to do it.

By early the next week Kenneth was working on a thin, plywood panel, three feet long and one foot high. The factory itself had become a solid geometric cube reminiscent of Piero della Francesca, and not unlike the head frame of the mine in the second mural. Harding, making his rounds, stopped behind him for the space of several minutes but said nothing. By the end of the following week Kenneth had painted the factory, the smokestack above it, and he had attempted to catch the anger, as Harding had done, in the gestures of the men, the set of their shoulders, and in the line of their strong, bent necks. Then he began to render the exquisite light he had intentionally memorized, as best he could, while he stood in front of the Post Office murals. He was pleased with the tenacity of his own visual memory, and with the results.

Later that week, Harding stopped for a considerable time behind Kenneth’s easel. Then he put his hand on his student’s shoulder. “Let’s go for a drink after,” he said. “There is a long, sad story that I want to tell you.”

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