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THE WORK IS FRESH AND ALIVE.”

AN ARTIST'S CRITICISMS AND PRAISE.

The annual exhibition of the Hong Kong Art Club which opened yesterday and is being held in a room on the 4th floor of Pedder Building is very well worth while visiting.

I had the privilege of reviewing the work of this Club in the winter of 1920, and to me the present exhibition is exceptionally interest ing and pleasing owing to the im- proved technique of many of the exhibitors. Amateurs that are will ing to be told their faults, and can profit by criticism are not often met with especially in the world

of art.

The standard generally is higher than that of last year, and the Club has also, profited by the inclusion of several new members whose work shows that they may be that the French call Grands amateurs CT

posibly professionals. That artists of this calibre should be glad to join the Hong Kong Art Club is recognition of the standing of that Club.

hill side, and the artist's apprecia tion of, balance and colour values" has led her to compose her picture so that this wfect is as pleasing "Hermitage of as it is unusual Potokul" (118) is equally interesting and forceful. The bold massing, and strong deep colour, empahile the wildness of the scene. It in a picture of the darker side of China which we who live here realise, strength confusion and terror speak from the great rock and the torn and windswept vegetation. Mrs. Pfister is happiest in an arresting subject, when she treats peaceful or trivial scenes she seems to loose the fierce inspiration which went to the making of The Hermitage. A Sunny, Autumn Day! (194) it the one exception.

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English Atmosphere. Among the newcomers is Grace Maconir who has exhibits in oil, wash drawing and lithography. The two oil paintings slew a fine colour sense, and are boldly treat ed. "The Kentish Weald" (70) gives a lovely sense of space and English atmosphere. The pattern of field and hill is good and there is rare beauty in the choice of colour in the immediate foreground. "Path up the Hill" (71) is a pleasing colour pattern very boldly excouted the one weakness being the in- decision of the tree which is con- used with the cloud. Mro. Mac- pair's washdrawings are delight- fully fresh and both draughtsman- ship and composition very able. "Old Houses Westminster (74) is the best. Of her three lithographs "The Mill Romnes" (80) very pleasing with its clever use of colour..

The Club has been lucky in secur ing an excellent room for the exhibition, it is amply large and light so that every picture can be Jeen to good advantage. The policy of grouping together all the work of one exhibitor is peculiar, I believe, to this Club, and has not in my opinion much to recom- mend it. It suggests that the ex- hibits are not of intrinsic interest but make their appeal simply on personal grounds. Art is a far bigger thing than society. The plan which has been approved by every gallery of repute of hanging works simply on their own merit;

A Decorative Artist. adjucating the best places to the Mr. J. H. Hunt has sent twelve outstanding pictures, and grouping interesting pictures. Mr. Hunt is around them those which take above all a decorative artist A second rank with due regard to Nepturian Fancy" is very pleasing colour and technique, is kinder to, in form colour and expression. both pictures and exhibitors. Miss Although the artist has treated it Peyton's work, for example, which strictly along decorative lines, his is euriously unequal, looses by the fishes do express the bewilderment present arrangement. To turn from and strangeness of their kind. The her Apple Tree (No. 88) to some colour range is exceptionally pleas of the pictures on the right hand ing. Somewhat similar though par screen is to feel immediate die-haps not quite so successful in illusionment. Had Miss Peyton's "Nature's Pageantry" (59) with its pictures been hung on merit her large bright flowers beneath good work would have been still straight tree stema, "A Castle, in more certain of obtaining recogni- the Air" (65) has the very atmos tion, while the others would have phere of Grima and." Lantsu" (69) been overlooked except by those is a very clever pen sketch who liked them, and the artist's reputation would be established by

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Singapore's new Bishop, the Rt. and three alight pencil Rev. B. C. Roberts, with Mrs. sketches. Both oils and etchings Roberts and their two children, chew a sense of forceful composi-

ints,

To return to the pictures, it will be de well perhaps to follow the tion, and the depth and variety arrived yesterday by the Haruna example of the Club and deal with gained by a comparatively simple Maru. Members of the local clergy the work of each artist in turn.

range of greens in The Avenue met them and, after the prelimin Among the old members Miss Pey- St. Cloud" (28) makes of its ton is to be congratulated on three striking and-pleasing picture. The ary greetings, the new arrivals left really lovely water colours, The pencil sketches from life are very the ship for Bishopsbourne. Apple Tree" (No. 98) is delightful, delicately treated and obviously Amongst those present to greet the the composition is original and well slight but are from a practised Bishop and Mrs. Roberta were the balanced and she has made akilful haud. Of the two etchings per Ven Archdeacon F. G. Swindell, use of. range of greens, which hape Old Houses on the Arzo" the Rev. G. T. Shetlife, the Rev. are of a particularly difficult tone (33) is the most, successful as it G. H. Douglas, Mr. G. F. Robson, o use with success. The Apple holds something of the mediaeval Mr. H. Perreau, and many others Tree" speaks of life, of the pul appeal of Florence.

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sating vigour of spring, and she Mrs. Ina MacNair sends pastels Church. has made use of a bar of vivid and water colours, "Club Garden" Bishop Roberts told a Singapore sunshine to provide that avenue of (82) with its well placed wall and Free Press reporter that he was escape which does so much to give door way and limited range of extremely glad to take up thie op: back to space and. distance. "Snow (108) colour is the most pleasing of the pointment is as elever if not as striking. An former. The other pastels zeed Malaya. "He recalled that he was unusual and not very inspiring sub-centralising. "Walled City Wein Singapore from 1915 to 1918, ject has been so treated that every Hai Wei (65) is a pleasing fresh when he left for service in Siberia detail tells. The angle at which little water colour, shewing the He returned to England after that the telegraph poles are presented bright and sunny side of a Chinese and for some time he was attach- in conjunction with the forward landscape, a pleasing picture thused to the St. Augustine's Mission- flow of the snow taden boughs to have on your wall. gives a third dimensional effect

"Repulse Bay," : which is hard to" obtain in so

Mrs. Noll has four water colours limited a range of colour. "Garden B.C." (161) is reminiscent of "The all shewing a love of distance and Apple Tree" but not. so happily delicate appreciation of colour composed. "Old Boulogne" (107). Her work needs rather more dis 18 pleasing street scene in which tance than most water colours for the artist's sensitiveness to at it to appear its best, which makes mosphere is apparent. Her other it probable that Mrs. Noll would The new Bishop's anthronement exhibits are far less interesting with do better in oils or if she made her will take place on Wednesday, the exception of "Mist, Hong sketches a little smaller. "Repulse December 14th. Kong" (109) in which she has tried Bay (59) is a good composition an exceptionally difficult subject which leads the eye direct to the and techoique. This is a picture distance which the painter loves. medium or subject. There is an which needs study and will repay MrsAubrey's exhibits are also indecision in all her pictures which a great deal more pleasing than is disappointing in view of her pic those in the 6 Show. Her techture sense and occasional good use nique is looser, cleaner, and wetter, of colour. and she has got some charming

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ary College, Canterbury About the middle of 1922 he accepted the chaplaincy of Selangor. He, therefore, knew Bingapore quite well, as a frequent visitor from up-country. His Selangor ap- pointment extended from 1992 to the present year, when he went on leave in March.

Dr. Newton sends some interest-

Mrs. Bowes Smith delights again with her flower studies of

"Wall flowers" nospheric effects noticably in "Aing work including an imaginative which perhapa

Peak Garden" (6). The steps are a gure subject "The Cavern Fool" (143) is the best although the wage little indecisive but there is (95) which shews careful construc is weak. One can smell the hot delicate appreciation of colour and ion, and there is a lifelike if not Warm scent of the blossoms and tone which is very pleasing.. their peculiar velvet bloom has been

very Battering portrait (06). admirably suggested. This picture

Japanese Influence, ›

Mrs. C. B. Brown, Miss Buckwell,

is painted in oils, and I an inclined Once more one of Dr. Baleon's Miss Harry, Mrs. Prosser, Mr. to believe that all would prove best efforts is unnumbered! It has Riley and Mrs. Sayer, all send Mrs. Bowes-Smith's best media beca inspired by Japanese prints water colours of varying interest. Delphiniums (138) is delightful and chews a pale sunrise above, a Mrs. Gubbay sends several flower fresh and decorative, and Chrys delicately treated mass of reeds, studies in oil, which need, rather anthemuma (149), shows a yery Figure Stretches" (15) shew the more freshness of treatment and a clever use of colour. A peculiarly same sure delicate touch. The child's better composition. beautiful red emerges from a tone head in the centre is probably the

Exceptionally Interesting Work. picture in grey and olive green. The best thing he will ever do, it has

The exhibition is exceptionally fowers have been used impres- some of the qualities of an old interesting. The work is fresh and sionistically with excellent results. master, say Rembrant, in the won alive, and taken as a whole this The landscapes are lese successful dorful amount which is expressed show stands very well compared #Speldhurst Woods (140) has an in a few pencil lines and a pale with some which one sees in Lon atmosphere of dark greenness but wash, Hydrangeas (11) is very don. There is no pot boiler," on neither composition nor, technique pleasing and decorative, and has a the walls: every picture has been equal that of her flower studies. subtle suggestion of a Watteau painted because of an irresistable decoration. Dr. Balean's work is desire to do so, and, moreover, Worth watching.

with the earnestness, which is more nically better than the oils I re- the amateur. The Hong Kong Mrs. Balean's exhibite are tech often the gift of the professional member from last year, but I doubt Art Club is alive, long may st if she has yet discovered either her flourish.

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The Great Wall.

Mrs. M. O. Påster sends twenty- three pastels of varying interest The most striking is The Great Wall" (119). The wall has been used to divide the picture into two Belds blue and green of sky and

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