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Though not numerous, poetic landscapes inspired by Motesiczky's immediate surroundings run like a continuous thread through her work. Kröpfelsteig, Hinterbrühl 1927 and View from the Window, Vienna 1925 depict scenes from the area where she grew up and spent her young adulthood. Other landscapes such as Golder's Hill Park 1981 portray the small area around Hampstead in North London. Here she had become part of a community of fellow emigrants, many of whom were also artists and intellectuals.
Other outdoor scenes, inhabited by the figures of family and friends, take place in the Motesiczkys' gardens in Amersham and Hampstead. Many of these have a fantasy element, such as Morning in the Garden 1943, in which two women wearing nightclothes, based on Motesiczky and her mother, play a mysterious game with a large orange ball in a lush garden setting, a reference, perhaps, to their incongruous existence as exiles in quintessentially British Amersham.
