International studio (19.1903)

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Jesigns for fiat surfaces was cne of the
best qualitiesof the hanging committee;
enabiing them rightly to include such
diverse methods of space-frding as Mr.
C. F. A. Voysey's and Mr. Lewis F.
Day's; and the ti!es sent by those two
so opposite designers are an apt iHus-
tration of their difference. For Mr.
Voysey a single spray often sufhces, with
its leaf and blossom, to exempfify " t!ie
art of fHling a f!at space without covering
it"—which has somewhere been claimed
as the distinctive note of Japanese work.
On the other hand, the tifes and pottery
panels exhibited by Mr. Lewis F. Day
were richly fforeated and lavish of colour
in a great variety of designs. The cubicle
furnished by him in association witfi
Miss Bradley and Miss Bar!ow, Messrs.
Lawrence HaH, T. F. Evans, A. J.
Kwiatkowski, and the Pilkington Pottety
Company, afforded an excellent study of
what may be done with coloured glazes,
even " to rneet the conditions of practical
manufacture," as the exhibitor says. The tiles a
and w in this group were particularly fine in colour,
and in strong masses of decoration, blending
harmonious greens and blues with Indian red
of a very well-chosen quality. In the opposite
recess was a notable piece of enamelling in a
rnore ambitious class of work, but which may
conveniently be mentioned here as bearing on


DECORATIVE PAKEL

BY MISS E. M. ROPE

the achievement 01 colour in the hring processes :
this is a small triptych in bronze and enamel by Mrs.
Geraldine Carr, with panels by W. Dacres Adams.
The subject—an incantation—istreated with dignity
and imaginative charm, and the technique, both in
design and colouring, is uniformly good. The
decoration is beautifully mounted and its total
effect workmanlike and pleasant to the eye.