War at sea
Fascinating exhibition of the war paintings of Sir John Lavery at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. I hadn’t realised that Lavery had been a war artists in World War I and yet this is a set of artists which have always fascinated me. A lot of the pictures were of war ships off the coast of Scotland , hence the title, and they were wonderfully pale seascapes. I loved a picture of Lady Henry's Creche at Woolwich for munitions workers as I have recently moved to the Woolwich Arsenal site and imagined it might have been in my buildings, I don’t think it was! The most poignant picture was of women's army auxiliary corps tending to newly laid out graves.