AN ENGUSH LADY ARTIST.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 183, 28 April 1908, Page 3

AN ENGUSH LADY ARTIST.

■. . -,-/An' interesting English/visitor ~to Welling-! / ton/is /Miss /Baldwin Warn,, an artist who f. /has lately vbeen/.workingVtoo hard_-at rher. ..art, and:has therefore-liad to-take thafc.best ■ of-.. remcdie*sj-/ a.-long: ; sea;-voyage.-.:v She was ■! *i told that'.-she required..quiet, and acknour, . '-,• lodges that she found, its in, that voyage or, • Bix :incredibly,long weeks. l , Miss Warn;..who . paints landscapes," portraits, and miniatures,. . ' has exhibited foi 1 half a dozen years: m the Royal .Academy;;-where she has- had-the honour , of -having .her.- work liung ■ " on, the i . line; ",she has Exhibited m the Pans Salon | . more than once; and aA the request of several v provincial towns :isome ,of. her. . Academy, pic-tures-have been -shown at, provincial oxhi- : bitions. One of her most important land- . scapes was '.' The Braes of exhibited in. the Royal Academy two years . 'Miss /Warn has cdme for a.holiday, :and has ■ . . j ' brought few .specimens of hor; work with her; - - .but. HDommica". was-allowed-to seo thosefew. " There is" a delicate miniature .of. , ! a young j;irl with sweot calm face,. an ideal subject: for a miniature, perhaps better , still is a miniature portrait of ?a rJiian ,dono . • in cool- greysvawl'bluest : But it -is larger . work that Miss. 'Warn -likes best. She has done vanouß..distinguished people •' v.at Homo.: OnOiof.Dr:-Beddoes,itl|o eminent . ... /^'.crahiolfigist//was/ painted:to/the order:of/.liis-friends';-/who .City>/of .Bristol. Miss Warn, has: photo- ■ i graphs of i two three iof those portraits, with, her, as well as soveral smaller portrait ■ studies. Thbse - are - all .very interesting. - The'work :is-goodwand- strongj-and: there , is ;, in«them . a : sympathy "and . touch /of poetry •' .- v .-..-that ..is very-, attractive.;:: c A-..dainty pretty, .', /, face,' may.: make the best/subject :for a'.'miiiia- / »ture, and.-Miss:Warn knows- how 1 to-catch ;■■■■ 1 its charm,-but it\is the'.fiice full of character V -'that :intcrests.'her::most,' -andHhat. is ,why, she prefors-.tho,:larger:canvds,- which enables . her to do justice ito theisubtleties of .oxpres- . sioij. t ; Mias Warn has studied under Her-: . lomer. at Bushy; and. in Piyns, and she, has ■ also spent a-gOod deal of. time studying under . Mr. George -Harcourt, ■ whom she. regards, as ■tho leading;iman among .tho She was v/Sry-niuch interested to heai* that- , , • Wellington.posscssed'one of his pictures,.and . . i thought we were-.-fortunats to have secured ■<:.//it 1 .,/'/,;lt /was interestiri;: I to -.hear/that she, had, : watched ,the :painting:, in progress. ~.- •-.>.• -modil is an Englishwoman of birth _and :edu-;- • cation, who wanders about the.country con-•-stantlr. .-< She was brought-' by: a friend of : Miss WarTvXto.-Mr.'-Harcourtj Who has.paint-j ed her severpl times. 'Jt/.amuseSjMiss Warn : . to reraember,vthat:-she.-herself ,helped, to /make... the.bonfire picture, ;ajid,that;the" ar- . tist's 'friends afterwards roasted Inotatoes in, j the ashes. r.A'.'They" onticiso t-the 'picture:, j : hero, and jtalk about the , sky?s - being- too .. v blue," she ssaid .#nt- ithat lis • .because :<yon' . 1 - . don't have -suph blue skies at jiight Zealand • as-we have on the "other side', of ■•tho/world..'. YOur.skies are-almost black; ... . but. you must: believe >that a- man like-.Mr. Harcourt would-only paint what hoi saw " ...... Miss Warn thinks colonial art gallqnes should 1 , r try to get .thevwork,, not of /men who* have w armed, ,-and perhaps-become.-stale, *but ,pf. the-nsmg artists, who are full of'enthusiasm :■ I and doing .itheir, very: best- Work just now-- ' ' :. Sho also thinks it'would be well lf-.Welluig-.-ton could secure some copies (of -the 'Old Mar. jrs, copies .done -by are not slavish copyists,; but , who have :an individuality of-.their.-own.: - > | .