DOI Heft:
Nr. 100 (June, 1905)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.26959#0431
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work it is the motive that is the essential form,
not the definite outline. The colossal enterprise
of the artist commands one's respect: nothing
daunts her. Take her now well-known enamelling,
for example. Lady Carmichael showed her how
the metal was prepared and enamels used : straight-
way she ordered a stove, set to work, and, as soon
as her experience warranted it, launched out into
such ambitious objects as a triptych, containing
thirteen enamels, illustrating the sorrows and final
triumph of Psyche. A casket of copper gilt and
ivory designed by her was inlaid with six enamelled
panels representing the history of Ariadne ; this
was presented to Mr. Butcher of Edinburgh by
the students of his Greek class. One of her most
beautiful enamels is a triptych of the " House of
Life," still in her studio. What a studio that is,
too, just a bare little room, a section of the gallery
of a small disused Free Church, the nave a sculptor's
workshop, the rest of the building divided up into
three or four tiny studios. The bring stove stands
out prominently; a few panels are stacked against
the walls, but not much finished work is on view,
nearly all being dispatched on completion.
Panel painting procures Mrs. Traquair many
BY MACAULAY STEVENSON
commissions : some she is now executing for the
altar decoration of a church in Nottinghamshire.
The one illustrated on page 340 is a panel painted
in transparent colour on a heavily grounded back-
ground : it ornaments a room designed by Mr.
Lorimer, the architect.
The secret of Mrs. Traquair's success in every-
thing she takes up is the whole-hearted, earnest
manner in which she throws herself into the work
of the moment; and, be it also noted, she never
seems to lose a moment; even her needlework
pictures, exhibited at St. Louis, were done during
a given spare hour of each day. Energy such as
this deserves the success it attains.
STUDIO-TALK
ONDON.—The strength and variety of the
summer exhibition of the Royal Society
of Painters in Water-colours can be
heartily commended. The collection is
one which worthily represents what is best in the
present-day effort of the British water colour school,
and it includes much that is admirable both in
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work it is the motive that is the essential form,
not the definite outline. The colossal enterprise
of the artist commands one's respect: nothing
daunts her. Take her now well-known enamelling,
for example. Lady Carmichael showed her how
the metal was prepared and enamels used : straight-
way she ordered a stove, set to work, and, as soon
as her experience warranted it, launched out into
such ambitious objects as a triptych, containing
thirteen enamels, illustrating the sorrows and final
triumph of Psyche. A casket of copper gilt and
ivory designed by her was inlaid with six enamelled
panels representing the history of Ariadne ; this
was presented to Mr. Butcher of Edinburgh by
the students of his Greek class. One of her most
beautiful enamels is a triptych of the " House of
Life," still in her studio. What a studio that is,
too, just a bare little room, a section of the gallery
of a small disused Free Church, the nave a sculptor's
workshop, the rest of the building divided up into
three or four tiny studios. The bring stove stands
out prominently; a few panels are stacked against
the walls, but not much finished work is on view,
nearly all being dispatched on completion.
Panel painting procures Mrs. Traquair many
BY MACAULAY STEVENSON
commissions : some she is now executing for the
altar decoration of a church in Nottinghamshire.
The one illustrated on page 340 is a panel painted
in transparent colour on a heavily grounded back-
ground : it ornaments a room designed by Mr.
Lorimer, the architect.
The secret of Mrs. Traquair's success in every-
thing she takes up is the whole-hearted, earnest
manner in which she throws herself into the work
of the moment; and, be it also noted, she never
seems to lose a moment; even her needlework
pictures, exhibited at St. Louis, were done during
a given spare hour of each day. Energy such as
this deserves the success it attains.
STUDIO-TALK
ONDON.—The strength and variety of the
summer exhibition of the Royal Society
of Painters in Water-colours can be
heartily commended. The collection is
one which worthily represents what is best in the
present-day effort of the British water colour school,
and it includes much that is admirable both in
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