STENCILLING THROUGH SILK

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25306, 4 October 1947, Page 2

STENCILLING THROUGH SILK

A group of 27 silk screen interpretations of the paintings of Canadian artists are now on exhibition at the Durham Street Art Gallery, and will be sent south next week when Mrs M. Dunningham, Workers’ Educational Association tutor. University of Otago, will exhibit them in Dunedin and other centres in Otago. These unusual works of art are issued by the National Gallery of Canada, and were lent to Mr W. S. Baverstock, secretary of the Canterbury Society of Arts, by the Education Department.

They are effective examples of the art of stencilling through silk. The colours are bold and harmonious, and the subjects include mountain and lake scenery, turbulent streams, farm scenes and such subjects as sugartime in Quebec* and a farmer’s clearing sale. Many residents of Christchurch who remember Mr Arthur Lismer. a member of the New Education Fellowship, who visited Christchurch some years '-ago, will be interested to learn that one of his works. “Isles of Spruce/ is included in the collection.

At the second of a series of the Art Society’s evening programmes arranged by Mr Baverstock, Mr J. N. Knight, of the School of Art. gave a demonstration of the methods used in the production of these silk-screen pi *tures. Films were shown of “Colour in Clay,” demonstrating the making of English pottery and “Canadian Landscape,” showing A. Y. Jackson. a leading Canadian artist, at work in remote districts.