Studio: international art (28.1903)

The Arts and Crafts Exhibition

hardly less than an inspiration, caught under
singularly happy auspices in the matter of material
to hand. The light and colour of the sky, making
a sunrise beyond the trunks of trees, is of a quality
rarely obtained in so difficult a medium. Another
artist in inlay, the Hon. Mabel de Grey, also con-
tributed two of her beautiful decorative panels for
furniture, but these were not so well hung as they
deserved.

Near Mr. Clement Heaton's casket was a design
by Mr. Frederick Marriott of St. George and
the Dragon, carried out entirely in gesso and

decorative panel by helen k. chapel

in gesso

difficult; but this was very commendably
achieved by Miss Helen K. Chapel in a little
panel carried out in a quiet and sombre twilight
scheme of colouring. The frame was well
chosen, being rightly conceived as part of the
work as a whole.

enamel panel by fanny bunn Catholicity of taste in the matter of pattern-

" the eve of st. agnes "

mother-o'-pearl. This is
a somewhat audacious and
restless piece of work,
but the material is
handled with considerable
power, and the gorgeous
forms of the knight, the
charger and the victim
would have shown even
better on a sombre back-
ground. As it is the
simple black frame is in
excellent taste, and the
general effect is rather that
of a mosaic.

The representation of
landscape in gesso, when
attempted rather from the

pictorial than the decora- panel in gesso and mother-o'-pearl inlay by f. marriott

tive side, is certainly "st. george and the dragon"

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