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'Edward Bawden thought that the watercolours which Hennell made in Iceland from August to late November 1943 were among "the finest he ever did". They had "the ease of complete accomplishment", he said and were "fully expressive and technically perfect". Bawden was not alone; other friends, too, considered Iceland to have been an inspiration to Hennell. "In the many watercolours he made there – often in the most trying conditions, his powers developed to their full strength," wrote Vincent Lines, while C. Henry Warren recognized the period as "the richest and most productive" of Hennell's life: "He always had the trick of getting the weather into his pictures but never, I think, more suggestively than in these: the icy air was in all of them, the flush of northern skies, the coloured glitter of arctic waters."
Jessica Kilburn, Thomas Hennell. The Land and the Mind, London: Pimpernel Press, 2021, page 256
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