DOI Heft:
No. 391 (October 1925)
DOI Artikel:Mr. Bernard Eyre Walker, A. R. E.
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21403#0244
BERNARD EYRE WALKER
brevity it gains in deep feeling and a
quality of absorbed if solitary thought.
The dark mountain-mass in Coniston
Beacon is full of modelling. " I feel I
could climb every yard of that hill/' said
a spectator at a recent exhibition. This
etching has admirable strength, clarity and
depth, and a beautiful variation in tone.
The same quality, in the medium of aqua-
tint, belongs to a recent plate, Bow Fell,
and to a very different subject, Wormgate.
The solemn tranquillity of the mountain
solitudes enfolding the little Westmorland
tarn is interpreted with a serious and
delicate precision which is classical. In
the smaller plate, the mystery of night
broods over a mean little street under the
shadow of Boston's great church-tower,
and imparts an unexpected beauty. Two
other aquatints, Bideford by Night and
The Torridge, Thundery Weather, while
hardly less poetical, are even more brilliant
in treatment; the former, a study of
distant lights reflected in the estuary
behind a foreground of dark trees ; the
latter, a striking cloud-effect. 0 0
It would seem that Bernard Eyre
Walker's happiest compositions are most
often the result of intense and sometimes
protracted meditation. From this they gain
harmony, the classic expression of a mood
and are truly original. However, he draws
most of his plates out of doors, working,
with the help of a mirror, straight from
nature. 0 a a 0 a
It is not easy to maintain a drastic inde-
pendence in the face of natural facts, but,
on the other hand, these etchings have a
freshness and freedom from academic con-
vention which make them specially attrac-
tive to the nature-lover. 0 a a
Mountains, trees and water form the
theme of most of Mr. Eyre Walker's
plates, and they are admirably rendered
in such works as the River Don series, of
which The Forester's Belt is an example,
or Balgie Bridge, Glenlyon. But he can
treat of homelier themes, as in the
cheerful little interior, My Fireside, or
the riverside life of boats and old ware-
houses. 00000
F. D.
238
" BOW FELL, WESTMORLAND "
AQUATINT BY BERNARD
EYRE WALKER, A.R.E.
brevity it gains in deep feeling and a
quality of absorbed if solitary thought.
The dark mountain-mass in Coniston
Beacon is full of modelling. " I feel I
could climb every yard of that hill/' said
a spectator at a recent exhibition. This
etching has admirable strength, clarity and
depth, and a beautiful variation in tone.
The same quality, in the medium of aqua-
tint, belongs to a recent plate, Bow Fell,
and to a very different subject, Wormgate.
The solemn tranquillity of the mountain
solitudes enfolding the little Westmorland
tarn is interpreted with a serious and
delicate precision which is classical. In
the smaller plate, the mystery of night
broods over a mean little street under the
shadow of Boston's great church-tower,
and imparts an unexpected beauty. Two
other aquatints, Bideford by Night and
The Torridge, Thundery Weather, while
hardly less poetical, are even more brilliant
in treatment; the former, a study of
distant lights reflected in the estuary
behind a foreground of dark trees ; the
latter, a striking cloud-effect. 0 0
It would seem that Bernard Eyre
Walker's happiest compositions are most
often the result of intense and sometimes
protracted meditation. From this they gain
harmony, the classic expression of a mood
and are truly original. However, he draws
most of his plates out of doors, working,
with the help of a mirror, straight from
nature. 0 a a 0 a
It is not easy to maintain a drastic inde-
pendence in the face of natural facts, but,
on the other hand, these etchings have a
freshness and freedom from academic con-
vention which make them specially attrac-
tive to the nature-lover. 0 a a
Mountains, trees and water form the
theme of most of Mr. Eyre Walker's
plates, and they are admirably rendered
in such works as the River Don series, of
which The Forester's Belt is an example,
or Balgie Bridge, Glenlyon. But he can
treat of homelier themes, as in the
cheerful little interior, My Fireside, or
the riverside life of boats and old ware-
houses. 00000
F. D.
238
" BOW FELL, WESTMORLAND "
AQUATINT BY BERNARD
EYRE WALKER, A.R.E.