DOI Artikel:
The craft section at the New Gallery
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20778#0083
Crofts at the New Gallery
lamp and candlestick in wrought steel
DESIGNED BY EDWARD SPENCER AND EXECUTED
BY W. SPENCER OF THE ARTIFICERS’ GUILD
in her coloured horn work suggests the French artist;
Mrs. Hadaway and Mrs. Bethune, two ladies who
have not thrown off the temptation of trusting to luck
m the arrangement of fine coloured stones and slabs
of bright enamel.
Mrs. Hadaway does some good work in silver
mounting, but her modelling of surfaces is indifferent
and will not bear comparison with the work of an
artificer like Mr. Wilson.
The one lady artist in ornaments who deserves to
be mentioned alone, since the personality of her work
gives her the cachet of individuality, and who is never
led away by the will-o’-the-wisps of passing fashion to
be untrue to her own feeling for refinement and tender-
ness is Mrs. Gaskin. She avoids all that is heavy
and flat, all that is gaudy; the fertility of her inven-
tive powers never seems to suffer, and although she
ls so individual she is never monotonous. Mrs.
Gaskin was one of the first lady jewellers to realise
the absolute necessity of good technique.
Good design and colour may serve to attract
the casual and ignorant observer, but without
good craftsmanship an art object can never
be perfect.
The Artificers’ Guild of Maddox Street,
shows a fairly large collection of honest and
praiseworthy work, neither outre nor yet
conventional, modern in design but fairly
well restrained. A better feeling for har-
monious proportions would be an advantage
in some instances where the base of a cup
seems too heavy, and the stem of another
too slim. An altar rail by Mr. Spencer is
an excellent piece of work, if not very
original. The earthenware by the Brothers
Martin, also part of this exhibit, claims
especial notice. Without wishing to imply
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SANCTUARY CANDLESTICKS IN BRASS AND COPPER
DESIGNED AND EXECUTED BY HAROLD STABLER
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lamp and candlestick in wrought steel
DESIGNED BY EDWARD SPENCER AND EXECUTED
BY W. SPENCER OF THE ARTIFICERS’ GUILD
in her coloured horn work suggests the French artist;
Mrs. Hadaway and Mrs. Bethune, two ladies who
have not thrown off the temptation of trusting to luck
m the arrangement of fine coloured stones and slabs
of bright enamel.
Mrs. Hadaway does some good work in silver
mounting, but her modelling of surfaces is indifferent
and will not bear comparison with the work of an
artificer like Mr. Wilson.
The one lady artist in ornaments who deserves to
be mentioned alone, since the personality of her work
gives her the cachet of individuality, and who is never
led away by the will-o’-the-wisps of passing fashion to
be untrue to her own feeling for refinement and tender-
ness is Mrs. Gaskin. She avoids all that is heavy
and flat, all that is gaudy; the fertility of her inven-
tive powers never seems to suffer, and although she
ls so individual she is never monotonous. Mrs.
Gaskin was one of the first lady jewellers to realise
the absolute necessity of good technique.
Good design and colour may serve to attract
the casual and ignorant observer, but without
good craftsmanship an art object can never
be perfect.
The Artificers’ Guild of Maddox Street,
shows a fairly large collection of honest and
praiseworthy work, neither outre nor yet
conventional, modern in design but fairly
well restrained. A better feeling for har-
monious proportions would be an advantage
in some instances where the base of a cup
seems too heavy, and the stem of another
too slim. An altar rail by Mr. Spencer is
an excellent piece of work, if not very
original. The earthenware by the Brothers
Martin, also part of this exhibit, claims
especial notice. Without wishing to imply
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SANCTUARY CANDLESTICKS IN BRASS AND COPPER
DESIGNED AND EXECUTED BY HAROLD STABLER
59