I have just been sent out of the blue a copy of a magazine called Common Thread (truth to tell, it came with some mail order shirts).  It includes an article by Paul Hedge of Hales Gallery about three older generation artists whose work deserves to be celebrated.    Two are RAs:  Frank Bowling is depicted in a dashing photograph in his studio in New York in 1968;  and I had not known that Basil Beattie trained as a figurative painter in the RA Schools from 1957 to 1961 before turning to abstraction and teaching the YBAs at Goldsmiths.