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Mr. Ethelbert White has developed a personal style in which emphasis on pattern and pure pictorial aims have been combined with a real feeling for nature. His exhibition at the St. George's Gallery shows a constantly developing technical skill which has not become an end in itself or swamped his natural enjoyment. His work tells admirably on the wall from its firmly grasped and rhythmic design. Looking more closely, one sees the simple directness and rightness of the means by which he conveys his zest in the construction of Italian towns and terraces and in English farms and foliage and Irish shores and skies. The genuine feeling and positive qualities of these sixty drawings makethem unusually exhilarating and refreshing. No other painter to-day Rives one quite the, same sense of spontaneous and lyrical
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