1961-05-13 — Page 12

JACKY'S DIARY

Yesterday i found something REAL Inneresting in the attiche

Wow.

BY

THE CHINA MAIL,

JACKY Mendelsohn ase 33/2

it was A Bunch of MUSHY" LETTERS daddy once Wrote to some Lady whore Name was Deorist Darling,"

SATURDAY, MAY 13, 1961.

I guess this Here Lady Didnt own A Mirror, on a count of He hadda keep on telling her what She looked likely

Ske

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Like for instants he

told Her how her Eyes was like STARS,

must of been real

GOOFY

LOOKIN!

Then daddy And

said how Her

also

TEETH looked

how

aN other thing was her

and har LiPs were as Soft as PEDALS.

Just liker PEARLS,

she

had

Hy 1961. King Fratusza Syndicate, Jor., Worbl rights reserved, i

Nose was likes a Button,

\/

Douglas Bland

A Neck

like a SWAN,

4-9

an

and a like VENUS D Milo*

Figgur

guess she used to bite her Nails a lot,

* and also that she had I RAVING Black Hair.

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THE

GRR:

HA

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Now that daddy don't Need the lettere any more to.. morrow i'm Sonna Play Post-MAN & give them out

To The neihbore.

artist with

Space Age Touch BUT HE'S A BUSINESS-LIKE

AS

IRISHMAN WITH A

DOWN-TO-EARTH JOR

WAY

by Beachcomber

COUNTRY

destroyed

unexpectedly

Can now enjoy the final

consolation

Of knowing its defences had

employert

The latest methods u!

retaNation.

Mutual annihilation, it's agreed, In the best weapon science

can invent

To banish uur and very quickly

lead

To total peace and full

disarmament.

Buffoons at play

the demand of a weary polificlan for beds in the House is granted, we may read of members shaving in the small hours, and the Speaker will be asked if it is in order for a member to take part in a debate in his pyjamas. I aco thus a Tory risted that most of the steepers are Labour M.P.3. "You can

tell them by the colour of their braces." Tories keep their waistcoats buttoned, to cover their braces, except for one exhibitionist whose bracen are in the Etonien colours. What will happen it a member, thought to be asleep, suddenly sits up. hasily adjusting his nightcap, and asks a question?.

-{London Express Service).

the

but it is the invisible process which of growth and suidity draws his attention and which he endeavours to evoke by plactic forms."

2.3

Lepglas Bland can take long as three months to com- plete a painting, laying on cont over coat until he is completely satisfied with the effect he has ercated.

But sometimes if that effect completely escapes him, he goes Into the garden of his Invely

S an artist, Douglas Bland definitely does not fit in with the accepted two storeyed

pattern.

He is neither temperamental nor wildly artistic. He doesn't have moments of deep depression and he doesn't shut himself into his studio painting for days on end.

The fact is, Douglas Blend is very business-like artit in- deed, and with a very down- w-earth job-le is an assistant with the Hongkong and Kow- 1001 Wharf and Godown Co. Ltd.

Yet paintings

would describe

not of this planet.

his

By-

Sylvia Da Costa-Roque

to

ከነወ። of his life, he discovered "Douglan Bland 115 completely un- Union.

the back with life, but reached earthly, zinging

the pures whlie experimenting with forms of the first werd-charse- Han Dynasty characters which he Looking at them, I can

ters, the simplined pletographs found "foscinating." almost hear the music of the that stand at the beginning of spheres.

Douglas Bland's palatings are completely impressionistic crea- tions of brilliant. lovely colours --the most wonderful sky pinks and blues-teamed together to form beautiful abstracts.

The past

But though they f in so well with this space age, they have running through them a touch cf the past of thousands of years ago.

the art of design.

"Calligraphy & in fashion just now with abstract painters, but Bland is at the source: he feels the lines. the balance of the characters."

Bland does give titles to his canvases, but his theory of abstract art is that you see it as

you want.

"Just because a painting Is called "Winter" you don't have to

home in Braga Circuit, "Kowloon, scrapes off every scrap of paint ind slarts all over again.

Says Mirs Hland, pretty. blonde und an arts and crafts instructor at a local school, "he comes to me with a painting and asks if I like. But no matter how much I admire if it doesn't satisfy him, off comes the paint,"

Irishman

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Douglas Aland is a strong- chinned stocky Irishman,

of the graduate

Ruskin Art School in Oxford,

Ho scrved อริ

naval

tenant during the war and

Fart he was In Ball wher's he tried to do a Gauguin act and lose himself in the heatly

then came to the Far East.

coast.

ace it as such" he said, "you may atmosphere of the place. But Douglas Bland has become an see it as something completely being no escapist, he left the artist of international note. His different, but with this art you island and set sall for the Clipa work can be found in private are free to feel exactly what you collections throughout the world, want." and he has held one-man showa on all the continents.

In July and August he is to have on exhibition at the Drian Galleries it London, and to

Integrated

Delving deeper into abstract

In 1948 he settled in Heng- kong and has been here ever since, though he has spent long periods in Australia. Mrs Bland's Inother lives in Perth, and Italy -Positano 12 the family's favourite holiday spot.

The Blands have three chil- For each painting is based on has just dispatched to England art he said, "the fact that con-

are all artisli- Chinese characters dating back 25 of what he considers to be temporary painting no longer re- dren, and they

produces the appearances of caily inclined. There is four centuries to the Han Dynasty, his best canvases.

On the canvases they stand Douglas Bland hasn't always nature does not in any way mean year-old Clodagh, Diarmuid, 3

Until that it has rejected the ex- out as black twiggy outlines, painted in the abstract.

and Stobban. 9. six years ago he was perience of it. It has almply 10- Does Daddy influence them? and it was not until Mr Bland about

It has become "Not a bil" he said, "If they are told me

that I reuilsed what pointing to true life, putting onto tegrated itself.

CRAVAS scenes and people of aware of a wider nature, hidden going to be artists it's their own they were.

under the surface.

personalities Art critic Meyer Levin, who China.

they have to ex- saw the artist last year in

With them, he was successful, "It is no longer the optical press not somebody else's. One Hengkong says in a story he but he seems to have only really image of a tree or river whitch Douglas Bland is enough in this wrote for the Morlda Timas found himself in this new period moves the artist's tensibilitics, family!"

Douglas Bland and his wife standing in front of one of his canvases.

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