NEW ZEALAND ARTISTS

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 139, 16 June 1930, Page 8

NEW ZEALAND ARTISTS

MR. AND MRS. GREENER

DISPLAY OF, THEIR WORK

(From "The Post's" Representative,) LONDON, 10th April. In the "Egyptian Mail," printed in Alexandria, Egypt, is the account of an exhibition of wood-cuts which was largely attended by the members of the British community in that city. The work was by Mr. Leslie Greener and Mrs. Greener (Rhona Hasteard), both New Zealanders, who have made their home in Alexandria for several years past. Mr. Greener, writing from Alexandria, says that the wood-cuts have been extremely, well received in Egypt, and the show was an entire success. They are planning to bring the exhibition to London and Paris during the course of this year and next. Last year Rhona Hazard's "Valley of the Marne" was bought by the Auckland Society of Arts for their permanent collection. She has recently been invited to send work to the British Artists' Exhibition at the Ferens Art Gallery, and her work will be in a loan collection of the Bx'itish artists to be held in London in the autumn. The correspondent of the "Egyptian Hail" explains that the woodcuts are the artists' new departure in artistic work, and they were all executed since last October. Although known as wood-cuts, the material used is actually linoleum, and in addition to the ordinary black and white work a large number of exquisite examples in colour, are on view. In describing in detail a number of the pictures the correspondent commends the artists for their excellent work. "Very original and beautifully conceived," he says, "is the New Zealand wood-cut, 'The Wilderness,' by Leslie Greener. It gives an intensely mournful feeling of a new country just being broken up by pioneers. The hills in the foreground were once covered by forests, of which now nothing remains but withered stumps. A little farm is seen neatling among them near a road, which is being cut among the hills, and in the far background is a range of snow-capped mountains. The critic states that one ol' the finest of the wood-cuts by Bhona Haszard is the picture of the Maine Valley.