ART EXHIBITION

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22139, 19 June 1935, Page 13

ART EXHIBITION

AUCKLAND LADIES' WORK SCENES IN MAJORCA Two Auckland women painters. Miss Amy Holland and Miss Winifred Dudley, who have lately spent some years in Europe, have arranged a joint exhibition of their work in the rooms of the Society of Arts, Victoria Arcade. The exhibition is to be opened at a private view to-day and will continue until June 28. Except for some flower-pieces, all the work shown by Miss Holland consists of oil and water-colour landscapes done in Majorca, where she has worked for the past five and a-half years These are not only picturesque, but are evidently faithful to the characteristic colour of the island. The all-too-familiar blue Mediterranean has no place in them. Instead, thero are grey-brown rocky mountains, the varied greens of olive and almond groves framing cream and buff farm houses; churches with towers crowned by cupolas of green copper, yellow stubble fields and banks of red earth. Many of the buildings date back to the times of the Moors. One of the oil paintings shows the Cartuja Valldemosa, the former monastery in which Chopin and Georges Sand spent many months. Among the water-colours are a number of studies of the charming patios which are to be found in all the larger Majorcan houses. Miss Dudley's pictures are all watercolours. The most conspicuous is a fine view of Avignon from across the Rhone, showing the famous Palace of the Popes, the tower of the cathedral with its gilded statue of the Virgin, and the great ruined bridge. Other subjects are charming old English villages, bluebells under the trees in Kew Gardens, old houses in Bruges, the Essex marshes and varied scenes in the North and South Islands. One delightful landscape was made on the Waimea River, near Nelson. All the pictures have a pleasant air of romance, to which the free and happy use of colour contributes.