Studio: international art (21.1901)

Arts and Crafts at Leeds

Mr. Henry Wilson, the London WffimBSglXBBSUBSBBMMMSB: way with the wood, was some-
Guild of Handicraft, the Bir- what crude and raw in colour;
mingham Guild, Mr. Montagu WM'nfrm^B^UKrYFi^^^ a defect well worth remedy in
Fordham's group of workers, / ! so good an exhibit. The plain

The furniture and jewellery, ^ ,*,^"**>*rf-\ A. \ ,j tint, eclipsing by its bulk and

and embroideries was seen flNRI ~ j^jfSS^^H designer and craftsman was a

a few more designs by capable B^KSRSvSsSfr' work was very well executed,

their names given by the firms \ effect. The music cabinet in

employing them, would have similar green wood was well

been very welcome. The most IBI^M^^B^^HI^^^^^^K built and good in design,

interesting work in this direc- and was only marred by the

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tion was the pottery shown by by ELLEN SPARKS insertion of a painted panel,

Messrs. Macinlyn & Co., of excellently conceived, but in

Burslem, coloured with metal- technique quite inferior to

lie oxides and executed entirely on the clay. The its setting. A second screen also erred in the

hand-painted bowls by the Misses Lucas were very direction ot crudity of colour. Such, however,

pleasing in colour and form. Messrs. Wileman & were by no means incorrigible errors in a

Co., of Longton, sent examples of their iridescent very creditable and promising group of exhibits,

glaze—some plain china candlesticks in green and On a smaller scale, the little firescreen by Sophia

in yellow. The shape was novel and ingenious, Lyndon Smith, of Cheltenham, was one of the

but in neither case was the colour quite satisfying most praiseworthy pieces of handicraft, with its

in quality. simple and well-carved railings of plain, unpolished

The most substantial pieces of furniture were by oak. Screens, indeed, seemed to have formed the

Mr. A. W. Simpson and Messrs. Neatby & Evans, favourite exercise of the exhibitors, and ranged

The polished walnut bedstead by Arthur Simpson, from the unpretentious but worthy example just

though less striking and original than his oak mentioned to the handsome and almost monu-

studio chair, was no less admirable in design and mental piece of leather-work shown by Ellen

workmanship. Its proportions and details, with Sparks—a three-fold screen with full-length panels

its frugal ornament centring in the inscribed representing " Earth, Air, and Water," designed

leather panel at the head, made a thoroughly and wrought by herself, and affording one of the

restful and harmonious whole. The leather seat most thoughtful and comprehensive displays of

of the chair, instead of harmonizing in the same fine technique and trained imagination. The
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