Studio: international art (47.1909)

fVest Cornwall as a

house, is illustrated by the sketch on page 105—
which shows a portion of the south front. Here
all the materials are of the plainest description
and treated in the traditional manner of the
district. Colour, texture and form are the only
factors to be relied on in work of this nature for
natural effects. The small stream forms a fence
between the garden and house.

The plan of the house at Happisburgh, on page
106, was illustrated by a pencil view in our March
number, and a description of the proposed altera-
tions was given then. The property consisted of
two extremely dilapidated, and not particularly
interesting, labourers’ cottages, with a cow hovel,
old sheds and a large barn. Nearly all these
buildings have been retained and brought into the
service of the new house. It is situated at the
end of the land reserved for the new golf links at
Happisburgh, on the Norfolk Coast, about midway
between Cromer and Great Yarmouth.

The illustration of a small house and flower
garden, on page 107, is another view of the house
which was shown on page 272 of the May number.
Reference was made there to the materials of
which the house is to be constructed; and a plan
will be given in a future number. The quality
aimed at here is spaciousness as well as compactness.

In a small house and a very limited garden, it is
not well to try to do too much with the area to be
disposed of in each. The house, although small,
has at least one large room, and the garden by
extreme simplicity ought
not to appear so circum-
scribed as it really is. A
similar effect of breadth
and simplicity has been
sought in the design for
the Bowling Alley on page
108. The same inten-
tion, as to size and cost,
has been aimed at as
described for the other
designs, and this has kept
a useful restraint on the
general treatment. The
materials would be rough-
cast, with dressings of red
bricks, and a roof of red
tiles. The lawn should
show that a better effect
can be obtained in a
formal way than if the
so-called landscape man-
ner were adopted.

Sketching Ground

WEST CORNWALL AS A
SKETCHING GROUND. BY
NORMAN GARSTIN.

The “ Ends of the Earth ” ! What combination
of words fills us with a more delicious sense of
vague desire ? One would stand on the brink
looking over the frontiers of space, gazing into the
unknowable. It is the suggestion of illimitable-
ness conveyed by the limit that fires our fancy,
what is distant grows vast through some trick of
the imagination. The Irish have a saying that
“Cows in Connaught have long horns,” Con-
naught being presumably distant. John o’Groats
possesses a distinction unattained by many a more
important John simply because his home is the
Ultima Thule linked in indissoluble association
with the Land’s End. To those who live in
crowded centres the very thought of capes and
headlands that thrust themselves out into lonely
seas comes with a sense of relief from the jostle
and jumble of the intricate scheme of city life.
In these days of universal exploration, when the
pursuit of solitude seems in jeopardy of being
annihilated by the very facilities offered for its
attainment, the remoteness of this corner of the
kingdom from the great centres of population has in
large measure saved it from the vulgarisation which
has befallen places more accessible. While still
out of range of the crowd, the luxurious travel-
ling facilities provided nowadays by the railway

“BLUE SEA AND GOLDEN CLIFFS—PORTH GWARRA, LAND’S END” (WATER-
COLOUR). BY S. J. LAMORNA BIRCH
(By permission of the Fine Art Society)

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