Myerscough-Walker
was among the best architectural draughtsman of the
1930s 'with his distinct contemporary style: employing
fantastic trees, powerfully contrasting and dense colours
using bodycolour rather than wash to create emphasis,
dynamic weather and light effects'. Much influenced
by Surrealism, Myerscough-Walker lived in Chelsea and
knew English painters such as Sutherland. In 1936 he
designed an Art Deco entrance to the Zoological Gardens
at Dudley Zoo, with a strong use of perspective, and
a strong contrast between the 'streamlined sweep of
the entrance roof' and the 'vertical line of trees that
frame the entrance'. Wrote Stage and Film Décor
in 1940, 'an historical overview of décor from
the symbolic simplicity of the Greeks to modern times'.
Information collated from: Royoung Booksellers,
'Stage and Film Décor, by Myerscough-Walker,
R.', http://www.royoung.com/cgi-bin/ryb455/2193.html,
accessed October 3 2003.
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