Studio: international art (35.1905)

Studio- Talk

MODELLED DESIGN BY CHARLES VYSE

FOR GLAZED POTTERY

Mr. Charles Dawson’s window, executed by Mr.
Alexander Gascoyne, is a particularly good example
of the work of both these artists. In spacing and in
the arrangement of the leads Mr. Dawson’s design
exhibits some of the best qualities we expect from
his work. The window has been carried out by
Mr. Gascoyne in a manner that suggests simplicity
only by the skill which surmounts difficulties.

HANLEY.—In the midst of a population
whose industrial energies are mainly
devoted to the manufacture of pottery
is the Hanley School of Art, where
very practical and praiseworthy efforts are being
made to further the artistic advance of an industry
to which art is essentially allied. It has become
almost a platitude to remark that the ceramic
industry is much in need of the application of
sound artistic principles, and for that reason it
is gratifying to find an institution training students
in a manner which will not only tend to improve
the aesthetic side of the industry, but also advance
the public taste in the direction of appreciating its
more beautiful productions. It has been often

said that it is no part of the duty of a nation or
a municipality to produce painters and sculptors,
but it is eminently the duty of both to produce
craftsmen who will combine with scientific skill
the appropriate application of art. The efforts of
the Hanley School in this direction are therefore
to be sincerely commended.

The principal object of the school is to further
art as applied to pottery, and considering this to
be the aim in view, the work may be broadly
divided into two sections. These may be termed
the teaching of art, which comprises the giving of
a general art education, and the teaching of artistic
technology, which includes the technique of pot-
tery. The school is under the direction of Mr.
George Cartlidge, A.R.C A., as headmaster, and
Mr. Francis Jahn, as assistant-master, and both of
these gentlemen, in addition to being thoroughly
conversant with the general side of art, have inti-
mate knowledge of the production and decoration
of pottery. It may be here mentioned that the
local education authorities have recognised the
importance of a connective system of art instruc-
tion, and have, with the object of correlating the
work of the various schools of the town, appointed

WALL FOUNTAIN
IN GLAZED POTTERY

BY CHARLES VYSE