NEW ZEALAND ARTISTS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18754, 6 January 1923, Page 6

NEW ZEALAND ARTISTS

ROYAL INSTITUTE OP OIL PAINTERS. (From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, November 24. Several New Zealand artists have pictures in this year’s exhibition of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters, The exhibition as a whole is very interesting, especially as the directors have shown a wide sympathy and have not expressed too great a preference for any particular school. The ultra-modern stylo is represented as well as the more orthodox, but the selection from these new schools fortunately has not been overdone. Mr A. W. Bowring, n member of the InstitvJiej has as many as four pictures on exhibition. Two of these are landscape studies, one being particularly interesting. He has been happy in catching a fleeting storm sky behind Camber Castle. The dark ruin against the flaming light overshadowed by a threatening storm makes a very striking picture. A sketch taken at Mullion. Cornwall, shows a rural scene with watermill in the foreground, and makes no special appeal. “Beryl” is a portrait study of a sunshine girl with tip-tilted nose. A straw hat trimmed with yellow poppies and a bunch of poppies against the pink of her blouse give scope merely for a bright and pleasant study. More ambitious is the portrait study entitled “A Love Song.” The model is a beautiful girl with auburn hair dressed iu ihe fashion of a past century. On the steps of a garden beyond a gallant sings to the accompaniment of a guitar. The expression of the girl is well done, and the rich colouring of her dress is ably treated. Mr A. A. Bender, for the first lime, has pictures hung in a London exhibition. He represents the impressionist school, and he contributes two studies. The one is a small sketch of the countryside near Hastings, and the other is a river scene at Chelsea. The latter is certainly a -striking study of barges, smoke, and steam lugs, and would be more applicable to the Thames below the London Bridge rather than in this residential locality. For those who appreciate this vague impressionist style the picluie will malto a strong appeal, for there is certainly power in it. , , , Mr R. S. Hollaby contributes a study of ihe Swiss Alps, entitled "A Breather.” It depicts a ski-er iu the midst of the snow evidently resting after a strenuous climb up the hillside. The pine trees in the background lend contrast to the -snow scene. Mr Hellaby's contribution to the Royal Academv recently was evidently an amplification of this present work.