DOI Heft:
No. 131 (February, 1904)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19881#0090
Studio-Talk
are able to see the beauty of restraint and the
co-relations of sky and water and earth.
' vendredi, bruges
Mr. C. J. Collings, who has just exhibited a
series of water-colour drawings at Messrs. Dowdes-
well's gallery, is an artist of very definite power and
individuality, a good colourist, and a skilful exe-
cutant. When, some few years ago, his work was
first seen in London, its sincere decorative intention
was generally recognized, and the originality of the
artist's point of view was much commended. Since
then he has acquired a much more complete con-
trol over pictorial subtleties. His design and
draughtsmanship have become more sensitive, his
colour has gained in strength and delicacy, and his
range in choice of material has perceptibly widened.
He is now a landscape painter of much distinction,
who deals with Nature in a personal manner that is
the more welcome because it is so markedly out of
the beaten track.
Mr. Norman Garstin's water-colours, In Border
Lands, made lately a not unattractive show in the
galleries of the Fine Art Society. The collection
by norman garstin consisted of records of picturesque bitsin Normandy,
Brittany, and Holland, and deserve to be remem-
bered for their unaffected simplicity of treatment
Ball. Birket Foster saw but one phase of country and judgment in choice of subject. The best
life, whilst Mrs. Allingham has limitations of drawings in the series were the Vendredi, Bruges;
vision, and often sacrifices the greater effect for the Lilies and Lace; A Bend of the Seine, and a
smaller. In Mr. Wilfrid Ball's work there is no strain- very pleasant note of quiet colour, Twilight in
ing after mere prettiness, and the various features the Garden, Caudebec.
of his landscape are considered in their true -
relation one to the other.
He does not greatly
trouble himself about the
exact form of a leaf or
flower, or about the
pattern of a child's apron.
Each item of his pictures
is considered in rela-
tion one to the other.
Working, perhaps, with
a more limited palette
than some painters, his
colour effects are always
harmonious and agreeable
to the eye. The exhibi-
tion of his recent work, at
the Fine Art Society in
New Bond Street, cannot
fail to increase the reputa-
tion he has held so long
among those whose eyes "lilies and lace" by norman garstin
74
are able to see the beauty of restraint and the
co-relations of sky and water and earth.
' vendredi, bruges
Mr. C. J. Collings, who has just exhibited a
series of water-colour drawings at Messrs. Dowdes-
well's gallery, is an artist of very definite power and
individuality, a good colourist, and a skilful exe-
cutant. When, some few years ago, his work was
first seen in London, its sincere decorative intention
was generally recognized, and the originality of the
artist's point of view was much commended. Since
then he has acquired a much more complete con-
trol over pictorial subtleties. His design and
draughtsmanship have become more sensitive, his
colour has gained in strength and delicacy, and his
range in choice of material has perceptibly widened.
He is now a landscape painter of much distinction,
who deals with Nature in a personal manner that is
the more welcome because it is so markedly out of
the beaten track.
Mr. Norman Garstin's water-colours, In Border
Lands, made lately a not unattractive show in the
galleries of the Fine Art Society. The collection
by norman garstin consisted of records of picturesque bitsin Normandy,
Brittany, and Holland, and deserve to be remem-
bered for their unaffected simplicity of treatment
Ball. Birket Foster saw but one phase of country and judgment in choice of subject. The best
life, whilst Mrs. Allingham has limitations of drawings in the series were the Vendredi, Bruges;
vision, and often sacrifices the greater effect for the Lilies and Lace; A Bend of the Seine, and a
smaller. In Mr. Wilfrid Ball's work there is no strain- very pleasant note of quiet colour, Twilight in
ing after mere prettiness, and the various features the Garden, Caudebec.
of his landscape are considered in their true -
relation one to the other.
He does not greatly
trouble himself about the
exact form of a leaf or
flower, or about the
pattern of a child's apron.
Each item of his pictures
is considered in rela-
tion one to the other.
Working, perhaps, with
a more limited palette
than some painters, his
colour effects are always
harmonious and agreeable
to the eye. The exhibi-
tion of his recent work, at
the Fine Art Society in
New Bond Street, cannot
fail to increase the reputa-
tion he has held so long
among those whose eyes "lilies and lace" by norman garstin
74