Scottish Painters by Ken Russell

Allan McClelland narrates this 1959 film by Ken Russell - a double portrait of the painters Robert MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun, seen at work in their Suffolk studio while discussing their paintings.

MacBryde and Colquhoun are pulled along by a horse-drawn cart before taking their paintings into a timbered cottage in the Suffolk countryside. It's close enough to London for sales purposes, and cheap enough at a pound a week to let them paint full-time. We’re told they will continue working there ‘until they find a studio for even less than a pound’. They stayed until 1961.

Scottish Painters was the first of Ken Russell's films about visual artists for the BBC's arts strand, Monitor.