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Close friend Geoffrey Gorer, a well-known writer and social anthropologist, felt that the originality of Hodgkins’ work lay in her sensitivity to colour and her calligraphic manner of painting. In Purbeck farm, the thickly applied gouache becomes as much decorative as descriptive. To animate the matte paint finish Hodgkins modified the dry gouache by drawing over it with graphite, which gives a certain sheen to the surface. (Frances Hodgkins - Leitmotif, 2005)