THE great-nephew of one of Scotland’s most lauded artists is campaigning to have the painter’s damaged gravestone rebuilt. Ian Watson, a long-time member of North Berwick Community Council, is hoping for the reinstatement of his relative Arthur Melville’s “lost” grave in Brookwood Cemetery, Surrey. Arthur Melville is considered one of the most innovative Scottish painters of his generation. He was born in 1855 in Loanhead-of-Guthrie in Angus and, when he was still a child, his family moved to East Linton, where he was apprenticed to a local grocer as a teenager and from where he walked to Haddington for evening classes in art.
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Photo colourist Emily Ellery later in life. Several of her works have become heirlooms in the hands of her daughter, former Palmerston North music teacher Yvonne Rae. How Emily got started on what she modestly called her “hobby” was, in a way, accidental. “She wanted to have a picture of her mother coloured, but couldn’t find anyone who could do it,” says Rae this week. “So she did it herself.” Another of her mother’s first works featured Yvonne as a one year old, with a soft peach complexion and a white outfit. Rae recalls that skin tones were the hardest to get right on the matte photo paper.