Design to fore in show
Water-colour paintings and mixed media works by Sally Powell are on show at the Canterbury Society of Arts Gallery in Gloucester Street. Mrs Powell graduated with a diploma in design from the university of Canterbury School of Fine Arts during the mid-19505, and this background of design training is evident in most of her work. The subjects for her painting are mostly Christchurch city and suburbs, translated into terms that are spontaneously and decoratively realised. The arrangement of bays, boats and houses have a Roul Duefy feeling in their composition, and the application of paint is full of energy, often being applied in staccato strokes that give freshness and vigour to subjects that would otherwise be mundane.
The mixed media exhibits, using fragments of cloth combined with paint, crayon or felt pen, have clowns, animals and people as subjects and are ideally suited to book illustration or decorative panels at the young child level. Portraits in the exhibition attempt to move beyond the decorative but lack conviction in their easy but nonexplanatory use of line. The exhibition, which is uncatalogued, will remain open until March 14. —G.T.M,
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33480, 11 March 1974, Page 14
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192Design to fore in show Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33480, 11 March 1974, Page 14
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