William Johnstone was the Borders farmer turned painter, an artist who made a significant career ‘down south’, becoming one of the great art educators of the post war era. He was Principal at Camberwell School of Art and at Central St Martins, London, before retiring in the late 1950s. Border Landscape is a sparse and automatic painting in watercolour and brush and is unusually representative. The Borders, the people and places were always at the forefront of his mind, however far his career took him and this painting will have marked a return to his homeland which he entirely inhabited, emotionally and intellectually.