Studio: international art (47.1909)

The National Competition of Schools of Art, igog

DESIGN FOR LEATHER BOOK-COVER

BY ROSE SWAIN (ISLINGTON, CAMDEN)

model in plaster of a turkey cock from life by
Mr. Ernest S. Stainton, of Birmingham (Margaret
Street), that should have been included among
the work of the sculptor students.

The enamels were altogether inferior to those
of last year. The best of the enamels from

DESIGN FOR EMBROIDERED PANEL

BY NONA PORTEOUS (LEEDS)

DESIGN FOR DECORATED MIRROR FRAME

BY GERTRUDE DE LA MARE (REGENT
STREET POLYTECHNIC)

happy in other respects than the plaque for
which Miss Dora K. Allen, of Dublin, has been
awarded a silver medal. The small pieces of
pottery shown in an adjoining case included a
sgraffito vase with a pleasant design based on
the teazle, by Mr. Norman Walker, of Leeds;

Dublin that were shown then were not so much
pictures as beautiful pieces of colour, in the
arrangement of which the designers had kept
always in view the qualities and the limitations
of the material in which they were executed.
This year the students have strayed from the
right path, and in almost every instance their
work was an attempt to emulate in enamel the
effect of pictures in oil or water colour. In
this attempt Mr. Oswald Crompton, of Sunder-
land, succeeded as well as any with his repre-
sentation of the Virgin appearing to Bernadette
in the fields at Lourdes. It was, however, less

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