Studio: international art (90.1925)

CAMPDEN—EDINBURGH

a designer of stained glass, and in a studio
adjoining his house at Campden carries
out, under his own eye, every step in the
production of a beautiful and elaborate
church window, from the first sketch of
the design to the firing and leading of the
glass. B. Orange.

EDINBURGH.—The frequent observa-
tion that " all things come to him who
waits,'* is seldom verified, but the French
addition of who " knows how " to wait,
more often realises its truthfulness.
Whether Miss Anna Hotchkis kept that
thought ever in mind during her student
days in Glasgow and Edinburgh, I am
uncertain. But to spend a sketching
sojourn in China was an early ideal, and
one, by knowing how to wait—she realised
in 1923. Her art before that time, prin-
cipally being vigorous little water-colours
and wood-cuts, and though always dis-
tinctly personal in composition, has grown
still more intimate and individually ex-

pressive in her technique. To note the
development of oneself, and to discover
one's own taste and tune it in keeping
with all the new and various elements
which call in one's artistic life, and per-
sonally battle with them in line and
colour, is a task for more than a summer's
day. Miss Hotchkis did not return with
any imitative results of the art of those by
whom she was surrounded, but adhered
to and developed her own taste and im-
pressions, and by giving drawing and
painting lessons in the Pekin University
was able to prolong her visit in a, to her,
alluring country. Amongst her many
water-colours and chalk drawings, those
dealing with the life of the Chinese, and
notably of the children, are perhaps at
the present time most intensely interesting.
The accompanying Millet-stalk Burning
is a characteristic little drawing, showing
those employed deceiving the gods, by
burning millet-stalk to imitate bamboo,
for use in the framework of their funeral
paper decorations. E. A. T.

" BURNING MILLET-STALK." CHARCOAL
DRAWING BY ANNA M. HOTCHKIS

259