Studio: international art (32.1904)

The National Competition

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is a sheet of drawings for

pool, Mount Street), which

modelled design for frieze panel by kathleen rickeard , • , ,, . ...

(Plymouth technical school) show considerable fertility

of invention combined
with genuine taste in the

with their ingenious border, show a delicate origin- choice and disposition of materials. The two
ality and inventive charm. The plates by Francis best of the series are, perhaps, the one with copper
Van H. Phillips are not quite up to his level of last panels and fittings, and the one in fumed oak
year. Those of Edward Lutz (Hanley) are pleasing ornamented with ebony and pewter. The example
and workmanlike ; and he essays a more ambitious of inlay is not so happily inspired, and in the first
figure-decoration for a large vase with considerable of the group there seems no object in putting an
success. open, lattice-like back to a dresser, unless intended

The modelled designs in plaster for decorative to serve as a frame for drapery. Several good arts
panels and friezes are somewhat above
the average this year. One of the most
striking, in its vigorous and spirited
treatment of a well-worn decorative
theme, is the Spanish Ar?nada frieze
for a yachting club, by Kathleen Ric-
keard (Plymouth). The award of the
gold medal to C. L. J. Doman (Notting-
ham) must be recorded to the credit of
the examiners in this case as an excep-
tion to their rule of encouraging too
elaborate work. Another Nottingham
student, Ernest Copestick, is similarly
rewarded for his beautiful little model
for a fire-dog, one of the most striking
of the designs in plaster, metal, and
pottery which occupy the centre of the
room. The ornament raised above
the bar for the fire-irons is a seated
figure of singular grace, the pose un-
conventional, and one that might easily
have yielded an unrestful effect, but in
the hands of this student it becomes
dignified and full of sober charm.

Designs for furniture are seldom a carved oak mirror frame by a. e. rampling (salford)

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