DOI Heft:
No. 247 (October 1913)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21208#0080
Studio-Talk
We illustrate on this page two needlework panels
designed and worked by Miss Joan Drew, assisted
by the village embroidery class at Chilworth, near
Guildford, the county town of Surrey. The two
panels form part of a set of three hangings for the
Village Room at Blackheath in the same district.
Both are in applique with gold embroidered spandrils
above and a line of embroidered flowers below.
The panels were exhibited at the recent Arts and
Crafts show at the Grosvenor Gallery in New Bond
Street.
The Senefelder Club is determined “ to raise
the lithograph to the level of the original etching,”
and that the efforts of the members are being
rewarded with success, all who have studied their
exhibitions must agree. “ It was at a Senefelder
Club show” writes Mr. Lewis Hind, “that I first be-
came acquainted with the lithographs of Miss Ethel
Gabain (Mrs. John Copley we must call her now:
she was married last June to the talented secretary
of the club). Her lithograph called Caprice caught
my eyes at once and held them in admiration.
Here is surety of touch, deftness of drawing, and
style. The little lady is delightfully posed, and the
frank disorder of the design, held together by the
rich and velvety blacks, splendidly massed, give to
the work an unusual air of distinction. In another
style is The Mirror—light and graceful, but indi-
cating that the. artist has laboured at the spade-
work of her craft. Miss Gabain works in no
groove; she is versatile, the evidence being a
portfolio-box of sixty and more of her lithographs,
which I have been examining with delight. She
ranges from the mystery of The Recluse to the
humour of The Black Beetle; from the wit of
Depart Fantastique to the pathos of Tired;
from a sunny landscape to Les Tours de St. Sulpice.
The editions of her lithographs never exceed twenty-
four : sometimes the number printed is as low as four
or six. Most of the prints are done direct upon the
stone, but although Miss Gabain occasionally uses
transfer paper, she always works again upon the
stone. Many of her prints have French titles;
indeed they show much of the Gallic spirit, with
reason, as this sensitive artist was born at Le
; QUH FIGHT IS TOTMKE. Igl
; STRfliCHT PITHS fOR THOSE f||§
I IWfJ COME TOfVJO
! p§f
\>r.?TQ JUKE TttEOTMESSpf*
! 70 &L05SQH /i$ 4 ROSE fes
TANELS FOR VILLAGE ROOM, BLACKHEATH, GUILDFORD
58
BY JOAN H. DREW
We illustrate on this page two needlework panels
designed and worked by Miss Joan Drew, assisted
by the village embroidery class at Chilworth, near
Guildford, the county town of Surrey. The two
panels form part of a set of three hangings for the
Village Room at Blackheath in the same district.
Both are in applique with gold embroidered spandrils
above and a line of embroidered flowers below.
The panels were exhibited at the recent Arts and
Crafts show at the Grosvenor Gallery in New Bond
Street.
The Senefelder Club is determined “ to raise
the lithograph to the level of the original etching,”
and that the efforts of the members are being
rewarded with success, all who have studied their
exhibitions must agree. “ It was at a Senefelder
Club show” writes Mr. Lewis Hind, “that I first be-
came acquainted with the lithographs of Miss Ethel
Gabain (Mrs. John Copley we must call her now:
she was married last June to the talented secretary
of the club). Her lithograph called Caprice caught
my eyes at once and held them in admiration.
Here is surety of touch, deftness of drawing, and
style. The little lady is delightfully posed, and the
frank disorder of the design, held together by the
rich and velvety blacks, splendidly massed, give to
the work an unusual air of distinction. In another
style is The Mirror—light and graceful, but indi-
cating that the. artist has laboured at the spade-
work of her craft. Miss Gabain works in no
groove; she is versatile, the evidence being a
portfolio-box of sixty and more of her lithographs,
which I have been examining with delight. She
ranges from the mystery of The Recluse to the
humour of The Black Beetle; from the wit of
Depart Fantastique to the pathos of Tired;
from a sunny landscape to Les Tours de St. Sulpice.
The editions of her lithographs never exceed twenty-
four : sometimes the number printed is as low as four
or six. Most of the prints are done direct upon the
stone, but although Miss Gabain occasionally uses
transfer paper, she always works again upon the
stone. Many of her prints have French titles;
indeed they show much of the Gallic spirit, with
reason, as this sensitive artist was born at Le
; QUH FIGHT IS TOTMKE. Igl
; STRfliCHT PITHS fOR THOSE f||§
I IWfJ COME TOfVJO
! p§f
\>r.?TQ JUKE TttEOTMESSpf*
! 70 &L05SQH /i$ 4 ROSE fes
TANELS FOR VILLAGE ROOM, BLACKHEATH, GUILDFORD
58
BY JOAN H. DREW