International studio (30.1906/1907(1907))

Studio-Talk



TIME STUDY: “HOMEWARDS” BY W. SEYMOUR

decorative sketches by Mr. W. Seymour,
here reproduced. Sketched in the class
in a little over an hour, they reflect very
great credit upon Mr. Seymour and also
the school.

We reproduce some examples of the
work of Mr. Maxwell Armfield, a young
painter who made his debut recently in
London with some paintings in tempera
and in oil, of unusual originality and
decorative power. Mr. Armfield’s ex-
hibition included some brilliant studies
of sunlight and open-air effects, showing
that whatever decorative conventions his
art may subscribe to, they are based upon
conclusions derived from a sound study
of nature. All too often decorative de-
vice is resorted to by the artist who is
afraid of the problems of naturalistic
form, but where this is the case the
result is never so happy in character
as where a thorough knowledge of nature
is deliberately subjugated to the restric-
tions of a chosen convention. In this
case, the convention is likely to be a
personal one to the artist, unlikely to be
well imitated. It is such a convention,
we think, that gives the personal note
which asserts itself in Mr. Armfield’s work.


“ LE PONT NEUF, PARIS '” RY MAXWELL ARMFIELD
(By permission of T. Muir Dalziel, Es<./.J
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