DOI issue:
No. 201 (December, 1909)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20968#0256
Studio-Talk
Egyptian drawings by Mr. D. Y. Cameron, placed James Cadenhead's Moorland. It is a vindication
together, were remarkable for the purity of their of the capabilities of aquarelle painting to tran-
colour and grave simplicity. Mr. Cameron has scribe nature on a large scale. One does not feel
not shown a finer quality of work than in Luxor, that if the artist had chosen oil colour he would
where pillared temples, seen across the brimming have produced anything more convincing, whether
river,1 speak of the mystic majesty of Egypt's in the rendering of large masses of colour and
golden past. The scope of Mr. C. H. Mackie's form or in the beauty of detail. In its colour
art was convincingly evidenced in three such diver- harmonies and composition and, above all, in its
gent scenes as A Winter Night at Rye, An Even- intimacy of feeling, it marks an attainment greater
ing in the Royal Gardens, Venice, and The Shepherd, than the artist has hitherto reached. The Grey
the latter a French pastoral. The alluring influences City, by Mr. James Paterson, is another of a now
of nature in repose were presented in these varying considerable series of inspiring studies of Edin-
media with the certainty of artistic insight. The burgh. Seen through a smoke-laden atmosphere
water-colour medium seems to suit Mr. E. A. Mr. Paterson's creation blends realism and
Walton quite as well as the sister vehicle, and romance. In his drawing, The Discoverer of the
in The Ford he showed a welcome departure from North Pole, Mr. William Walls has given a
his customary colour scheme, a suffusing sunset humorous touch to his figure of the Polar bear
warmth permeating sky'and landscape with beauti- stalking the ice-fields ; his group of camels resting
ful purple-greys. _ has some fine passages of colour, and in The Moor
Road, Aspisdale, we have a delicately beautiful
The largest drawing in the exhibition was Mr. landscape work. Mr. R. B. Nisbet's drawings, of
"AN AYRSHIRE BY-WAY"
234^
BY TAYLOR BROWN
Egyptian drawings by Mr. D. Y. Cameron, placed James Cadenhead's Moorland. It is a vindication
together, were remarkable for the purity of their of the capabilities of aquarelle painting to tran-
colour and grave simplicity. Mr. Cameron has scribe nature on a large scale. One does not feel
not shown a finer quality of work than in Luxor, that if the artist had chosen oil colour he would
where pillared temples, seen across the brimming have produced anything more convincing, whether
river,1 speak of the mystic majesty of Egypt's in the rendering of large masses of colour and
golden past. The scope of Mr. C. H. Mackie's form or in the beauty of detail. In its colour
art was convincingly evidenced in three such diver- harmonies and composition and, above all, in its
gent scenes as A Winter Night at Rye, An Even- intimacy of feeling, it marks an attainment greater
ing in the Royal Gardens, Venice, and The Shepherd, than the artist has hitherto reached. The Grey
the latter a French pastoral. The alluring influences City, by Mr. James Paterson, is another of a now
of nature in repose were presented in these varying considerable series of inspiring studies of Edin-
media with the certainty of artistic insight. The burgh. Seen through a smoke-laden atmosphere
water-colour medium seems to suit Mr. E. A. Mr. Paterson's creation blends realism and
Walton quite as well as the sister vehicle, and romance. In his drawing, The Discoverer of the
in The Ford he showed a welcome departure from North Pole, Mr. William Walls has given a
his customary colour scheme, a suffusing sunset humorous touch to his figure of the Polar bear
warmth permeating sky'and landscape with beauti- stalking the ice-fields ; his group of camels resting
ful purple-greys. _ has some fine passages of colour, and in The Moor
Road, Aspisdale, we have a delicately beautiful
The largest drawing in the exhibition was Mr. landscape work. Mr. R. B. Nisbet's drawings, of
"AN AYRSHIRE BY-WAY"
234^
BY TAYLOR BROWN