Studio: international art (83.1922)

STUDIO TALK.

(From our own Correspondents.)

J ONDON.—Mr. G. Gilbert Scott,
J_j Architect, who was elected an Asso-

ciate of the Royal Academy in 1918, was
promoted to full membership of that body
at a General Assembly held at the end of
March. Mr. Scott is a grandson of Sir
Gilbert Scott, R.A., and has won distinc-
tion as a designer of ecclesiastical struc-
tures, the most notable being Liverpool
Cathedral. At subsequent Assemblies Mr.
Charles Ricketts, Mr. A. M. Talmage, and
Mr. G. F. Kelly, painters, and Mr. Sydney
Lee, engraver, were elected Associates, a
On the opposite page we reproduce an
engaging example of the work of Miss
Katharine Turner as a painter of flowers.
Miss Turner is an Associate of the Royal
Society of Painters in Water Colours, and
for some years past has regularly con-
tributed to the Society's exhibitions. a

At the little Cotswold Gallery in Frith
Street, Soho, following an interesting
exhibition of new drawings by Mr. F. L.
Griggs, chiefly of the old city of Avignon,
rich in relics of the past, there is during
the present month a display of pictures and
drawings by Miss Margaret Gere, who like
Mr. Griggs is a denizen of the Cotswolds.
Miss Gere's work is not so well known in
London as that of her brother, Mr. Charles
Gere, and with the exception of a show at
the Carfax Gallery some ten years ago, this
is we believe the first time she has had a
special exhibition here. Her best known
paintings are of a religious nature and one
of the most important examples of this kind
—Noah's Ark, painted in tempera on linen
—is in the Tate Gallery; for the rest, what
has been said of other artists of this Cots-
wold group applies to her—they possess in
common ** a love of a lovely country of green
hills and stone buildings brooded over by a
sense of ancient prosperity and greatness."

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“ ANGLESEY COTTAGES.” TEMPERA
PAINTING BY MARGARET GERE

(Cotswold Gallery)