SURGEON-ARTIST

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23647, 3 November 1938, Page 20

SURGEON-ARTIST

SIR HAROLD GILLIES FURTHER PICTURES EXHIBITED (From Oub Own Correspondent) (By Air Mail) 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 if 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 ort view. It is entitled "Myvatn, Central Iceland." Grey mountains loom in the background under fleecy clouds, and in the foreground aire a bay and a lush green landscape. Sir Harold evidently does not favour large canvases, and all his studies are comparatively modest in size. They may be bought for £lO 10s to £ls 15s. . Another New Zeaiander whose work is also to be seen at the Royal'lnstitute'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.