A NEW ZEALAND ARTIST.

Shannon News, 1 April 1927, Page 3

A NEW ZEALAND ARTIST.

AN AtfCKLANDER'S SUCCESS. LONDON, February 11. Mr Frederick Porter, who has an exhibition of his oil paintings at present at the Lefevre Galleries, is a native of Auckland, who came to London when he was about 20 years of age. During the 30 years he has'been in England he has established for himself a solid reputation. This was amply demonstrated last year when he was one of the only four living English .painters whose work was chosen for exhibition at the Norwich Centenary Festival. Mr Porter was one of the original members of the London Artists' Association At present he is an instructor in oi! painting at the London County Council Central Schools. The present exhibition is obviously the result of a tour by Mr Porter ir the South of France, most of the paintings being of scenes in the country be hind Toulon. There is one exception —a Sussex landscape—and this is prob ably the best of the group. The composition is good in all the pictures, but Mr Porter excells in the use of strongcrude colours. He uses them, so ski! fully that there is a pleasing harmony Avhich an artist of lesser ability would fail to. achieve.