SURGEON AND ARTIST

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23181, 29 October 1938, Page 18

SURGEON AND ARTIST

SIR HAROLD GILLIES FURTHER PICTURES EXHIBITED [FROM OCR OWN correspondent] LONDON, Oct. 13 ! Sir Harold Gillies, New Zealand's famous plastic surgeon, has acquired something in the nature of a habit of seeing his oil paintings hung in public. Two of his paintings were on view at the summer exhibition at the Royal Institute Galleries, and this week two further exhibitions are showing his work. The Medical Art Society has accepted two pictures, "Near the Central Springs, Iceland," a study in browns and fawns, and "Winter Sun, Rye," which shows a windswept landscape cheered by the watery rays of an English winter sun. At the Royal Institute of Oil Painters' annual exhibition another of Sir Harold's Iceland scenes is on view. It is entitled "Myv-atn, Central Iceland." Grey mountains loom in the background under fleecy clouds, and in the foreground are a bay and a lush green landscape. Sir Harold evidently does not favour large canvasses, and all his studies are comparatively modest in size. Thev mav he bought for £lO 10s to £ls 15s. Another New Zealander whose work is also to be seen at the Royal Institute's exhibition is Miss Mabel Hill (Wellington). She has chosen Iceland poppies for her subject, and entitled it "A Gleam of Sunshine," for the sun has caught the bowl and the poppies, emphasising the crimson and yellow of these attractive flowers.