VIVID LANDSCAPES.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20183, 11 March 1931, Page 9

VIVID LANDSCAPES.

m ,*\, ' ;' r v The exhibition «j> landscape yP»int* wate*veolQttr H* jfanH"' Smith at lib* auction gallery of "^jfajwfa 1 - K. G>' " Living#to»e «nd r Cp.n» inter-, eating' chiefly because of the unustiai nature pf/the'subjects represented. Mr Nevill-Smtth haafor wmb years been a president.. of Arisen* psS > nearly jful his pieces &h"ow< seenes is thfrdewttß and eanyaAt' therfr.and' Jj* Qid, .Mexico.q?h<?T« we vfllso a, number ofytiopicaV; < scenes of Tahiti aodHawaii, sad two', or th*es Australian landscapes. > t' Mr Nevill-Smlth has set hitoself to represent the vivid oowur bis subjects, and the result*# striking. £E« succeeds m oojivayia* thest range atmosphere, the hctrd Urate '.-of' the desert, and the, bieken wrns of the mesas. Of interest here are hb Range »* "Caqtue &a»d,!* <! Earljr ing, ( Qrapd <3»ayon,"' and "Sonny £'p« of an impression of unrest • is given by his Australian. landscapes, which express' -an. 'entirely altered nwod. The chartga is due, to the fact -that ,the artist, Jiot ,having*' his. attention ,Rttacied so , alUcoromanding oolour; lias been able ta give, more care to the production' : of pleasing composition. The best'Ofc . these landk&pes are "Tweed' Heads and "Hawkesottry River." .