DOI issue:
No. 302 (May 1918)
DOI article:Image, Selwyn: W. Eyre Walker, R.W.S.
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21356#0126
IV. Eyre IValker, R.1V.S.
And this sentiment, mood, emotion came to be Mr. Walker's art seems to reach its high-water
things that mattered, and with which I had to mark. Fresh, true, beautiful as his drawings
concern myself." To a spirit so serious and always are—enviable things to possess, ever}*-
reverent as his undoubtedly, in any case and one of them, just because of these constant
unaided, this fresh revelation of Nature out of healthful qualities—yet in the two now men-
her inexhaustible treasury, and the appeal made tioned there is beyond these qualities a note of
by it to her attentive interpreter, would in due human emotion which sets them apart as
course have come. But I feel sure that Mr. Poetical Creations. Just so. In their entire
Walker will not resent my here putting down in conception and in each detail of them this is
print what privately he has stated to me—how the work of an artist, who does more than see
much, I mean, in this particular development of vividly and record truthfully, invaluable as such
his artistic sensibility and aim he was influenced gifts are. Rather is it the work of one who
by long and intimate relationship with our dear has passed, so to say, behind the interesting
friend the late Thomas Hope McLachlan. Both and beautiful appearances of Nature, to find
Night and Afternoon Sunshine are genuine something in her of that suggestive sympathy
characteristic Eyre Walkers : but in sentiment, by which, far beyond merely delighting our eyes,
colour, and design how sympathetically would she—for encouragement, or solace, or pity—
they hang against a couple of Hope McLachlan's moves our imagination and passion. And then,
profoundly poetic landscapes ! A rare artist but only then, supposing the power of technical
indeed did untimely fate snatch from us in expression has been gained, it is in the proper
McLachlan's early unexpected death twenty sense of the word a poem, that is the result. A
years since, just when his power was coming to poem—yes: not merely, that is, a record of
its full, and beginning to tell for good beyond Nature, however delightful; but, inspired by
the circle of his admiring and devoted friends. Nature, a fresh imaginative creation visibly
To myself personally, at any rate, I must communicated to us through the sensuous
confess that in Afternoon Sunshine and Night medium of Art.
"HAIL STORMS"
120
WATER-COLOUR BY W. EYRE WALKER, R.W.S.
And this sentiment, mood, emotion came to be Mr. Walker's art seems to reach its high-water
things that mattered, and with which I had to mark. Fresh, true, beautiful as his drawings
concern myself." To a spirit so serious and always are—enviable things to possess, ever}*-
reverent as his undoubtedly, in any case and one of them, just because of these constant
unaided, this fresh revelation of Nature out of healthful qualities—yet in the two now men-
her inexhaustible treasury, and the appeal made tioned there is beyond these qualities a note of
by it to her attentive interpreter, would in due human emotion which sets them apart as
course have come. But I feel sure that Mr. Poetical Creations. Just so. In their entire
Walker will not resent my here putting down in conception and in each detail of them this is
print what privately he has stated to me—how the work of an artist, who does more than see
much, I mean, in this particular development of vividly and record truthfully, invaluable as such
his artistic sensibility and aim he was influenced gifts are. Rather is it the work of one who
by long and intimate relationship with our dear has passed, so to say, behind the interesting
friend the late Thomas Hope McLachlan. Both and beautiful appearances of Nature, to find
Night and Afternoon Sunshine are genuine something in her of that suggestive sympathy
characteristic Eyre Walkers : but in sentiment, by which, far beyond merely delighting our eyes,
colour, and design how sympathetically would she—for encouragement, or solace, or pity—
they hang against a couple of Hope McLachlan's moves our imagination and passion. And then,
profoundly poetic landscapes ! A rare artist but only then, supposing the power of technical
indeed did untimely fate snatch from us in expression has been gained, it is in the proper
McLachlan's early unexpected death twenty sense of the word a poem, that is the result. A
years since, just when his power was coming to poem—yes: not merely, that is, a record of
its full, and beginning to tell for good beyond Nature, however delightful; but, inspired by
the circle of his admiring and devoted friends. Nature, a fresh imaginative creation visibly
To myself personally, at any rate, I must communicated to us through the sensuous
confess that in Afternoon Sunshine and Night medium of Art.
"HAIL STORMS"
120
WATER-COLOUR BY W. EYRE WALKER, R.W.S.