HYLAND
of the place Creswell, who travels far abroad to capture, in
watercolor, landscapes of all ilk, calls home, a refuge where
he refines his ideas, sketches and writings into the luminous,
precise watercolors which have made him world famous.
There are certain kinds of artifacts, amounting to unpre-
meditated still lives, which characterize a distinctly English
interior. I must admit that the photograph of Kyle's which
speaks to me most powerfully, evoking my own memories of
England, is of a detail, a luncheon plate painted at the center
with a neoclassical manor house, on which reposes knife,
fork and the remains of a fig. Nearby are wine glass drained
to the lees and teacup with leaves, Great Britain's twin liba-
