EXHIBITION OF SKETCHES.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 October 1922, Page 6

EXHIBITION OF SKETCHES.

SOME CHARMING STUDIES. The beauty of the coast-line round about North Taranaki, the romance of the port and of Pukekura Park, have evidently appealed to Mrs. M. Cooke, and she has some striking portrayals of well-known spots among her exhibition of color-sketches now on view in the window of Messrs. Roberts’ art decoration shop in Devon Street. Included in the collection are some delightful sketches from the Waitara Heads, along the coast-line and round about the mouth of the Te Henui River and Mount Bryan reserve. Paritutu and the rocks at the base of this historic spot provide subjects for other pictures, with glimpses of the mountain showing in a few more. Pukekura Park, with its wealth of New Zealand flora, has provided a happy huntingground for the artist with her sketch-book, the Heidelberg Estate and the Brooklands Road also attracting Mrs. Cooke’s brush. One striking picture of the fascinating sketches of the Breakwater shows a glimpse of the romance to be found in the prosaic dredge and the “tramps” that trade on the deep. With a few sketches from round about Queen Charlotte Sound and other beauty-spots of the South Island, and a few studies of Welsh scehery, the exhibition is completed by some particularly striking figure-subjects. The whole exhibition reveals a taste and an ability that speak for themselves concerning Mrs. Cooke’s appreciation of the artistic and her aptitude with the brush, and it is well worth inspection