Water - Colour Difficulties Highlighted

To be more explicit. Sylvia Lovell's Technical ability is not quite up to the task of presenting all she feels about her subject matter.

The 80-odd watercolours and drawings on display varied markedly in their quality. Far too much work was hung: her reticence to wield the pruning-shears results not only in the lowering of the overall standard of the exhibition, but causes us to wonder whether she herself has any artistic discrimination.

Sylvia Lovell is a romantic artist whose work personifies some of the more disagreeable features of romanticism. To put it both unkindly and bluntly, one could describe her as a romantic drooler without draughtsmanship.

Her two still life studies and drawings, in particular, reveal her inadequacy in this direction.

Consequently, the essential Sylvia Lovell is insufficiently realised.

Many students will have noted the exhibition of paintings in the Student Union Building arranged by Paul Olds. This sort of project is a very laudable thing. Although at the time of writing I have not see any of the work included, there appears to have been a very catholic selection.

It is understood that shortly there is to be an exhibition of the work of two Wellington women painters. Jacqueline Fahey and Virginia Hart. This exhibition too, will be at the University.

Opening in Wellington at the end of the month will be an exhibition arranged by the British Council of British children's art. Training College students, in particular should find this of some interest.

We hope to run a more detailed list of activities later. Forthcoming exhibitions, however, include work by Raymond Boyce, Don Peebles and Frank Cross—G.L.E.