Studio: international art (82.1921)

STUDIO-TALK

colour drawings at Walker's Gallery harbour, the fishermen's houses, and the
represents the individual talents of Mr. lateen-rigged fishing boats of local build.
Martin Hardie and Mr. Romilly Fedden, This picturesque town has proved pic-
two artists who fully understand the ex- tonally inspiring to Mr. Hardie, while
pressive capacity of the medium and among other drawings of special excellence
handle it with artistic resource, each one should note The Hill Top of Les Baux,
according to his temperament. Mr. The Shepherd of Les Baux, La Points de
Hardie's keeps him steadily advancing Brescon, The Chateau de Mont Majeur,
within the sterling tradition of the English near Aries, and The Cliff at Cassis, the
masters of water-colour. His is an un- last a particularly fine drawing of noble
failing serenity of vision; he sees in- design. Mr. Fedden's drawings are
variably the shapes of the land and the mostly of things seen in Morocco, and,
waters, the houses and the boats, com- fine colourist that he is, his vision has
posed with a charming chance, as it were, been artistically enchanted by wonders of
while the atmosphere that envelopes them rich hues such as he has painted with
takes the light with a modest beauty of obvious enjoyment in The Orange Market,
tint. Southern and Central France have Tangier, In the Bazaars, Rabat, and In
yielded him the subjects of his recent the Souks, Rabat. His pictorial interest
drawings, and Martigues, reproduced here in the native life and character—especially
in^monochrome, is an admirable example, in the strange spectacle of the crowd
The morning sun plays gently over the stirred by religious emotion—has found

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' MARTIGUES." WATER-COLOUR
BY MARTIN HARDIE, R.E.

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