WINDOW DISPLAYS

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 32, 7 February 1935, Page 17

WINDOW DISPLAYS

WOMAN ARTIST IN LONDON

After two years' work in London, Mrs. Katharine Pearce has attained the distinction of becoming England's only woman' window display artist I manufacturer, with her own workshops and studios. This charming woman is something of a jack-of-all-trades, and the story of her career has more points of resemblance with that of an adventurous man than those of even the most versatile of modern business men. , ' ' , '' An enviable amount of world travel, residence in, the' East, where her husband in an engineer, and work of a dozen different types, ranging from art teaching" to Korse training, journalism, Red Cross nursing, and lecturing in psychology have formed her apprenticeship for her enterprise in a sphere where her success depends on her ability to appeal to the widest public possible. In addition, she has a flan- for history, and an" unquenchable enthusiasm for ships and travel. As a girl Mrs. Pearce became an artist, and studied in Paris and London. She-also designed some ship interiors and hotel decorations, but it was only two years ago, after she had arranged a shop window display which attracted much attention, that she decided to go into business as an ' advertising display artist: This has developed until she does\shop stands, shop 4 fronts, dioramas, and stage sets. She has her own London workshop, and when necessary employs workers in a factory outside London. She was the first to make use of chromiumfaced plywood in window display.