Art
THE CAMPDEN HILL CLUB. WALKER GALLERIES.
Tim Walker Galleries, New Bond Street, are opening their autumn season with an exhibition of paintings, drawings and sculpture by the members of the Campden Hill Club. This club does not exist to preach any particular doctrine, and its members, who appear to be rather scattered geographically, have, got together a collection of work which is varied both m subject and treatment. The majority of the pictures shown are small and straightforward, but some few members, such as Miss Ray Marshall, Miss Mary Godwin and Miss Audrey Weber are decidedly on the modern side. Miss Gledstanes seems to have a foot in both camps, for in her Welsh Valley and other landscapes she shows herself as a direct water colourist, while in her oil painting Tea her subject is seen and treated with the modern eye. This latter picture is well grouped, and has an effective colour scheme. Sir George Clausen, the President, is' represented by only one picture, an oil painting of Tulips. It is full of that luminous brightness which he always works into his subjects. Mr. T. Gentleman is responsible for the largest canvas, Moonlight—Segovia, apparently all done with the palette knife. It should have been hung at the end of the gallery, where the distance necessary to view it properly could have been obtained. Among the portraits, Miss Etheldreda Gray's Serena, daughter of Major and Mrs. Peto, stands out. Against a dark blue background, the small Serena, seated on a highly polished table, is playing with a bunch of bright flowers. The pose is unconventional and the painting both • delicate and sympa- thetic. An attractive frame adds to its charm. Mr. Dacre Adams has got a certain amount of warmth into his water,- colour of Tom Tower from Peckwater, and Miss Hilda Hechle has made a decorative composition out of her Melting Snows— near La Grave. Egrets, one of the three woodcuts by Mr. Stefani Fisher, is particularly successful. Miss Constance Pargeter's Stylile stands by itself among the small number of
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