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A documentary commissioned by Alwyn Owen for Frances Hodgkins' centenary.
Sculptor Henry Moore speaks about her membership of the 'Seven and Five' group of artists and sculptors; pupil and close friend Jane Saunders talks about sharing a house with Hodgkins, her presence, personality and work.
Compatriot, friend and photographer Douglas Glass talks about Hodgkins' love of children, the origins of her sense of colour and the amount of work Hodgkins destroyed.
Arthur Lett-Haines comments on the influence of Polynesian art in her work; friend and fellow artist Hannah Ritchie focuses on Hodgkins as a teacher; writer and social anthropologist Geoffrey Gorer talks about her use of handwriting in her work, her ill health and poverty.
Friend Elsie Barling talks about the sketch of her by Hodgkins in the Auckland Art Gallery and Hodgkins' sense of humour.
Abstract painter and member of the 'Seven and Five' Ben Nicholson recalls her sense of humour.
Sculptor Dame Barbara Hepworth speaks about their shared dealer Duncan McDonald and Hodgkins' courage.
Sir Cedric Morris and Arthur Lett-Haines talk about her impoverishment in the 1930s, their efforts to secure her a dealer, landscape painting, her love of children and her eccentric style of dress.
Geoffrey Gorer's housekeeper Annie Coghan [?] recollects Hodgkin's love of animals. Annie Coghan's daughter Nancy Moore recalls Hogkins from her childhood - her sense of colour and her ill health.
Dr. Sutherland of the Ashmolean Museum, speaks about Corfe Castle where Hodgkins stayed in the 1930s and describes her studio there. A friend in later years, Eardley Knollys, discusses her work 'A Courtyard in Wartime' painted during World War II.
Elsie Barling and Nancy Moore describe her run-down studio. Friend and painter Katherine West talks about painters and their writing, quoting from a letter Hodgkins wrote to her.
Douglas Glass speaks of the effect she had on the her friends of the younger generation. Friend Barbara Coombs recalls when Hodgkins became seriously ill in 1947 and when she visited her in hospital. Katherine West remembers clearing out her studio after Hodgkins' death and Sir Cedric Morris speaks of her courage.