DOI Heft:
No. 61 (April, 1898)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18391#0219
Studio- Talk
"the cliff" at Newlyn, the sea and harbour ending
with a lighthouse serving as a background of bluish-
green. Mr. Walter Langley has a picture in which
a little boy is playing on a banjo ; his friends are
grouped around admiringly. Mr. Ralph Todd
shows a storm with a crowd of fisher-folk watching
its devastation. Mr. Percy Craft has a humorous
picture of fisher lad and maiden. Miss Ford shows
a Madonna with her Holy Child passing forward
through an orchard—very high in tone. Miss
Rosamond Holmes, a nude boy piping to some
peacocks as they trail across a daisy-spotted mead.
Mr. Harvey has a fisher's cottage, a simple motive,
but strong in painting. Mr. Lamorna Birch has a
landscape, and there are many other works that I
have not been able to see, and one other which I
have seen too much of. N. G.
ST. IVES.—As usual St. Ives, if one
contrasts her painters with those of
Newlyn, is more lavish of colour and
more free in the use of it. The can-
vases seem to have embraced life,
DESIGN FOR A POSTER BY MISS HELEN FAULKNER
[See Birmingham Studio-Talk)
wisely or unwisely, under a more ardent impulse;
the growth seems more spontaneous, the result
more impressional; but there ! why contrast, more
particularly when the first instance which I shall
take runs in direct opposition to my argument ?
Mrs. Adrian Stokes is still glancing backwards at
the art of the past, and still creating pictures of
dainty execution and of rare and personal feeling.
She is contriving an armoured knight embracing a
fair lady, a queen if one can judge from her head-
dress and her stately robe, the whole set in a dim
wood of tall grave trees. Mr. Stokes has also
painted a wood of solemn pines, between whose
great boles the red sun stained sky shows luridly.
A knight is here also, but he kneels at the foot of a
shrine. Mr. Stokes' picture appeals to us through
a direct sympathy with nature largely and strongly
expressed. Mrs. Stokes wins us with a more com-
plicated appeal to traditional art and the mysterious
feelings that spring from it, coupled with her own
tenderness and daintiness of execution. Mr. Stokes
has a larger picture of a long mountain range that
wanders across the sky line in rounded masses of
sunlight intersected with purple shadows. Upon
an upland foreground there are sheep that are
"the cliff" at Newlyn, the sea and harbour ending
with a lighthouse serving as a background of bluish-
green. Mr. Walter Langley has a picture in which
a little boy is playing on a banjo ; his friends are
grouped around admiringly. Mr. Ralph Todd
shows a storm with a crowd of fisher-folk watching
its devastation. Mr. Percy Craft has a humorous
picture of fisher lad and maiden. Miss Ford shows
a Madonna with her Holy Child passing forward
through an orchard—very high in tone. Miss
Rosamond Holmes, a nude boy piping to some
peacocks as they trail across a daisy-spotted mead.
Mr. Harvey has a fisher's cottage, a simple motive,
but strong in painting. Mr. Lamorna Birch has a
landscape, and there are many other works that I
have not been able to see, and one other which I
have seen too much of. N. G.
ST. IVES.—As usual St. Ives, if one
contrasts her painters with those of
Newlyn, is more lavish of colour and
more free in the use of it. The can-
vases seem to have embraced life,
DESIGN FOR A POSTER BY MISS HELEN FAULKNER
[See Birmingham Studio-Talk)
wisely or unwisely, under a more ardent impulse;
the growth seems more spontaneous, the result
more impressional; but there ! why contrast, more
particularly when the first instance which I shall
take runs in direct opposition to my argument ?
Mrs. Adrian Stokes is still glancing backwards at
the art of the past, and still creating pictures of
dainty execution and of rare and personal feeling.
She is contriving an armoured knight embracing a
fair lady, a queen if one can judge from her head-
dress and her stately robe, the whole set in a dim
wood of tall grave trees. Mr. Stokes has also
painted a wood of solemn pines, between whose
great boles the red sun stained sky shows luridly.
A knight is here also, but he kneels at the foot of a
shrine. Mr. Stokes' picture appeals to us through
a direct sympathy with nature largely and strongly
expressed. Mrs. Stokes wins us with a more com-
plicated appeal to traditional art and the mysterious
feelings that spring from it, coupled with her own
tenderness and daintiness of execution. Mr. Stokes
has a larger picture of a long mountain range that
wanders across the sky line in rounded masses of
sunlight intersected with purple shadows. Upon
an upland foreground there are sheep that are