AT ROYAL ACADEMY

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 148, 25 June 1934, Page 15

AT ROYAL ACADEMY

A PAINTER GASFITTER

■''vAniong those-entitled to mingle with, the fashionable throng at the private view of the Royal Acamedy Exhibition was a gasfitter living in a quiet London back street, says the "Daily Mail." '..■.. ; He was Mr. Ernest Gillan, of Lerverton Street, Kentish Town, N.W., who is exhibiting a water-colour landscape at the Academy. This landscape represents a river scene in Essex in midsummer and is ftill of exquisite colouring, which was largely painted in the front parlo,ur and the kitchen of his home with his wife gazing admiringly on it, and his two children playing near. Mr. Gillan has been employed by the Gas" Light and Coke Company for the last twenty-two years and is at present attached to the depot at Camden Town. He said to a "Daily Mail "'reporter: "I had a landscape exhibited at the Academy four years ago, and afterwards my colleagues, who take a great interest in my work, made me a presentation of a box of oil paints and other artists' materials. "I paint at home in the evening after work or during the weekend, and have no proper studio. "I have a memory for colour, and quite recently I have been painting scenes of Russia, where I served for two years after the end of the war." %He added that he had been to the Yarnishing Day at the Academy, and that he found that his picture had been hung in a very good place.

The Railway Department announces a sale of lost and unclaimed luggage and goods in the Railway Social Hall, Waterloo Quay, Wellington, on Wednesday, July 25. An advertisement regarding the sale appears in this issue