Studio: international art (31.1904)

F. Cayley Robinson

touch of pastel. Sometimes he will work on a Ferry, a curious and beautiful picture showing a
background of plaster, as in the picture called The shepherd and goats gliding down a river in a boat,
Night Watch, in which the significance and colour with tall water-lilies at regular intervals in the
of the bare wall is subtly rendered. The pictures foreground, the tops of the flowers reaching the
that illustrate this article give an adequate repre- high horizon-line of the picture. Examples of
sentation of his present manner—the manner, I another of his manners are the minutely and
believe, that expresses his true self. Those who lovingly wrought Beautiful Castle and Fata
wish to make further acquaintance with his achieve- Morgana.

ment should visit Mr. Baillie's gallery in Princes Here, then, is a painter who subscribes, per-
Terrace, Bayswater, where a large number of sistently, persuasively, and patiently to the creed
examples of his pictures and drawings are being that art is, and must always be, closely allied to
exhibited. ethics. It is a thorny subject, and not till the

His art training was arduous and varied. He last man has painted the last picture will the last
does not look back with any great pleasure to the word be said upon it. Each side has its champions,
time he spent in the antique rooms of the St. John's with favours of a thousand different shades in their
Wood schools, or that part of his student days bonnets. There is no doubt about Michael Angelo's
when he drew from casts at the Royal Academy opinion on this question. One day, at the Church
Schools. But there was joy in the three years of San Silvester in Rome, he said, " It is not suffi-
which dawned when he bought a small sailing-boat, cient merely to be a great master in painting and
to spend most of the time afloat, observing much very wise, but I think it is necessary for the painter
and painting little. To this period belong The to be very good in his mode of life, or even, if such
Outward Bound and Drifting. Between that time were possible, a saint, so that the Holy Spirit may
and his departure for Paris, where he worked inspire his intellect." C. Lewis Hind.

under Bouguereau and Ferrier, he painted The -

It is proposed to inaugu-
rate a summer exhibition in
Llandudno, to consist of
modern furniture, objects
of art, water-colours, oil-
paintings, and engravings,
and also examples of similar
old work. By this means
it is hoped that two objects
will be achieved. The first,
and most important, is that
the comparisons to be made
in such an exhibition will be
of high educational value;
and, secondly, that it will
successfully pave the way to
an annual exhibition which
will be looked upon as
an additional attraction by
visitors to the town. To
accomplish this the com-
mittee invite offers of ex-
hibits of both modern and
old work. The exhibition
will take place in June,
July, and August, at the
Mostyn Art Galleries, and
communications may be
'taking in ballast" from the tempera painting addressed to the curator,

by f. cayley robinson Mr. J. Hanmer Hutchings.'