PORTRAITURE

Ladies' Mirror, Volume 3, Issue 2, 1 August 1924, Page 12

PORTRAITURE

THE WORK OF A VERSATILE ARTIST UNTIL comparatively recent times pastel was but little used, for the small range of tones at the artist’s disposal debarred a medium, already admittedly difficult to handle, from general employment, except for slight sketches of a graceful nature. During the last few years, however, new discoveries have been made, and now the artist has at his disposal a wide range of tones that enable him to raise pastel almost to the level of oils, and to attempt subjects that were once prohibited. Mrs. Wallwork’s work demonstrates this fact most amply, and her series of portraits, some of which are illustrated here, show a command over a medium that now lends itself to most beautiful effects. Mrs. Wallwork is well known in the South Island as a portrait painter of steadily growing reputation. Her portraits in pastel of children are much sought after, and latterly, since her return from a European trip, she has been working on portraits of adults with marked success. She commenced her serious art studies as a student at the Manchester Municipal School of Art, where she spent some years in arduous study of drawing, paint-