Studio: international art (55.1912)

Studio-Talk

new to London art circles, for until quite recently
Brighton has been the scene of his labours and he
has been a frequent contributor to the South Coast
galleries. Mr. Edwards’s work is varied and
imaginative, and his fantasy is always expressed
with vigour and freshness. In the beauty of line
and the massing of colour his Majesty, suggestive
of Shelley’s “deep autumnal tone,” is a marked
success.

Mr. Roger Fry’s exhibition of drawings and
paintings at the Alpine Club in January could have
been resolved into two sections : on the one hand
decoration proceeding from emotion, on the other
merely from ingenuity; the former providing an
interesting exposition of the Post-Impressionism
Mr. Fry has so eloquently advocated, the latter
chiefly of interest to himself. Such a picture as
Wet Summer, 1910, inspires one with belief in the
principles Mr. Fry professes, while there are some
few others which tend to defeat one’s belief in
them.

Mr. V. Ash Edwards is
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“shadow strength’

FROM A WATER -COLOUR BY V. ASH EDWARDS

“THE EBB TIDE RUNS.” FROM A PEN DRAWING BY
V. ASH EDWARDS

The Carfax Gallery held an exhibition of paint-
ings by Mr. Alexander Jamieson last month. Mr.
Jamieson has a poetic feeling for the lakes and

was too undecided a
character about some of
the exhibits for the show
to be entirely satisfactory.
It did not always seem as
if the members had re-
course to lithography as
the inevitable medium for
their subjects, but rather as
if they were trying round
for subjects to suit the
medium. The exhibition,
however, contained highly
interesting prints by Mr.
Harry Becker, Mr. Copley,
Mons. A. Belleroche, Mr.
Joseph Pennell, Mr. A. S.
Hartrick, Mr. F. Ernest
Jackson, Mr. P. F. Gethin,
Mr. T. R. Way, Mr. J.
Kerr-Lawson, Miss Mary
Creighton, and Mr. Ed-
mund J. Sullivan, all ex-
ploiting the stone in a
variety of legitimate ways.