Studio: international art (18.1900)

Arts and Crafts

Edgar Allen Poe), and the " Vertumnus" are " Palmer," was shown in the form of a coloured
instances of pure mosaic treatment in vari-coloured sketch, at the Arts and Crafts Exhibition. With
glass, without any painting whatsoever. The latter, the exception of the flesh and an occasional letter
which illustrates some lines of Goldsmith's, is a in the ballad wording, which breaks the composi-
landscape, rendered faithfully as regards local tion into irregular horizontal bands, the whole is
colour, with just the necessary breadth of handling in mosaic treatment, including the robe of black, to
and decorative selection to convert it into orna- render which satisfactorily in coloured glass always
ment. The galleons were designed to form, as it presents a difficult problem. Last there remains
were, a frieze running through the upper part of to be mentioned the sundial window, which, being
the windows of a library; the idea"of the heaving correctly oriented, records the time for the benefit
motion of the billows being carried out in the of those within the house whenever the sun shines
wavy lines underneath enclosing the quotation upon the gnomon fixed outside. This is a pic-
from the words of an old song. Alone of the turesque and interesting device, which deserves to
designs under notice, a hall-window, subject a be more widely adopted—or rather revived, for the

idea of it is not new, albeit the extant
examples in old work are rare. The letters
upon the dial are the initials of the pious
motto : Ad majorem Dei gloriam.

A version of Mr. H. A. Payne's beautiful
panel, The Enchanted Sea, was published,
without the border however, in the form
of a colour-print in May 1898 in a
quarterly magazine. But there can be no
question that, carried out on a larger scale,
as it is, in needlework by Miss Amy Mark,
it has gained enormously in power and
decorative qualities. The greater part of
the area is occupied by solid embroidery
in crewels, while the ground material,
which is of the colour of light brown
hollahd, is left to serve, outlined in needle-
work only, for the faces and hands of the
figures, for parts of the costume of the
principal figure, the shell-craft in which
she is seated, and the sails of the boat in
the middle distance. The prevailing
colours of the composition are a pale fawn
tint for the draperies and grey green for
the sea, with black and deep purple-brown
for the emphasising of certain of the minor
details.

It would seem that Mr. Ingram Taylor
has a notable predeliction for those forms
of fantasy and vegetable life which folk-
lore and natural facts are wont to associate
with the neighbourhood of water. Three
compositions of his present practically the
same family likeness. The first is the
design for a panel to be worked in
applique. It depicts a troop of aerial
spirits floating round the masthead of the
barque which bears a single occupant across
a moonlit lake. In addition there were two
design for applique-work panel ' by e. Ingram taylor designs exhibited by the artist at the New
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