CHANGE OF OCCUPATION

Waikato Times, Volume 117, Issue 19514, 1 March 1935, Page 11

CHANGE OF OCCUPATION

FROM WAR TO ART. A PURPOSE IN LIFE. Believing that a man’s life Is barren if without purpose, Colonel W. S. S. Harvest, who arrived at Sydney by the Port Dunedin, look up the brush when he laid down the sword, and exchanged Ihc science of war for the arts of peace. Memories of service with the Royal ■Marine Light Infantry, mostly in the Egyptian War, have been banished from the mind of the colonel by a preoccupation with painting and sketching. ■‘l retired in 1010, and wanted some other work, so I took up art professionally,” said Colonel Harvest. "I had never attempted it until I was 50 years of age.” Landscapes and seascapes are his speciality, and he has exhibited In London. He is also noted for his paintings of iho moon. The warrior-artist can draw from most parts of the world, excepting China and Japan, having been to France, Italy, Spain, flic Mediterranean, Tunis, Algiers, Egypt, Palestine, North and South America and Australia. (in Ihe Port Dunedin, in which lie is making a round voyage lo escape I lie English winter, he lias Improved Iho shining hour by painting from Ihe ocean. Wherever lie goes lie visits Ihc art galleries, and those of Madrid and Melbourne have impressed him particularly.