Colour and form

Painting became the subject of Adrian Stokes's next book, Colour and Form. Previously he had emphasised both the carving responsiveness of artists to the physical materials of their art and art's psychologically integrating effect on its beholders. In Colour and Form he developed this two-fold account of art in terms of painting about which he got help from Curly at Dartington in Devon. Stokes had spent seaside holidays in Cornwall as a child. He painted there while staying with Curly at the Porthminster Hotel in St Ives. After reviewing the summer 1936 London season of Ballets Russes productions for The Spectator, Stokes stayed with Eddy Sackville-West at the Provencal home in Sanary of Aldous Huxley. He also spent time away from Sanary in Paris where, he told Eddy, he drew "very badly" and spent time with Livia.