EXHIBITION OF PICTURES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 469, 30 March 1909, Page 6

EXHIBITION OF PICTURES.

Mr. George Sherriff, of Wangamii, who has been in England for some years past, has an exhibition of some eighty pictures and watercolour sketches in Mr. Buller's Gallery, I.nnibtou Quay. Tho pictures are various—flower studies, landscapes, and seascapes—and it is in his English studies that Mr. Sherriff has been most successful. "As Light as Day" is the title of a moonlight scene on a wet beach with tiny waves creeping in, a long lino of dark rooks running seawards, and low clouds on the horizon. "A Earo Sight in Cornwall" is n suow picture, and one of the most successful in tho collection, with its wintry atmosphere and snow-burdened hedgerows. "A Check in a Ruined Crop" is a hunting scene, and tho background is a beautiful one, with yellowed autumn trees in tho valley and scattered trees on a hillside that is covered with tho purnlo haze of distance. A little sketch of a bridge near Silvcrstream is charming, tho water a.s black as only quito still water can be, tho shadows of the treos dark as the water, and a floating skim of stagnant weed giving tho faintest pink glow. "Mount Arthur under Winter Snow" is hard and brilliant, while grey and mysterious is "A winter's Sunrise at St. Ives." It conveys au effect of a palo yellow track of sunlight, too dun almost to' bo called light. A Dorset sketch of, clift'sido covered .with heather and gorso aud plain and distant sea is also among tho most attractive of tho sketches.