ART IN WARTIME

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 October 1940, Page 4

ART IN WARTIME

MAINTAINING PAST STANDARDS. MASTERTON SKETCH CLUB EXHIBITION. In wartime, amateur artists, like other sections of the community, devote much of their time to patriotic work, but it is their aim, as well, to try to keep alive interest in art and to develop young talent. An exhibition of the past year’s work of members of the Masterton Sketch Club was opened today in the club rooms, Bannister Street, and there is no sign of the war having affected the standard of painting. There are good numbers of oils and water colours in a variety of flower and landscape subjects, sepia, pastel, and pencil studies, decorative work and a miniature on ivory. Also, there are the paintings which represented the club at the Centennial Exhibition, a selection which embraces a variety of mediums and treatments. The work of three of the younger members calls for special comment. Miss Gillian Gooder, who, until recently, was at the Christchurch School of Art. exhibits a small group of promising oils; a still-life in rich browns is outstanding. Miss Phyljis Free shows several colourful and interesting designs and Miss Betty' Pain gets an unusual and fanciful effect in a water colour of a rock formation on the East Coast. Pleasing selections from the best work of the more experienced painters, whose art is well known to the Masterton public, make up the exhibition. The exhibitors are: Mrs C. M. Daniell, Mrs F. C. Brockett. Mrs E. Ramsay, Mrs H. Daniell, Miss L. Cock-

erill. Mrs A. Young. Miss Phyllis Free. Miss Betty Pain. Mrs R. L. Shaw. Mrs E. M. Vowell, Miss E. Creswell, Mrs E. Dalziell, Miss Gillian Gooder, Miss Clara Cockerill, Mrs G. Eastwood. The Sketch Club is giving the proceeds of this exhibition to patriotic funds, so it is hoped that the public will attend in good numbers.