Gisborne Art Exhibition

In opening the annual exhibition of the Gisborne Art Society in the art gallery late last month, the Mayor, Mr H. H. Barker, congratulated the exhibiting artists saying, "Each succeeding exhibition shows such constant improvement in standard and range of work, that I run some risk of repeating myself. With so many amateur painters turning out work of such quality, it is a compliment to Gisborne as well as to themselves."

Those present for the opening night of the exhibition were fully absorbed by the range of painting exhibited, as the pictures show.

Some of the interesting paintings exhibited are reproduced on the following two pages.

A critical, yet, perhaps, puzzled eye, studies Euen Blackburn's large oil canvas titled "Composition".

The work of Norman W. J. Scott was complimented in his opening address by the Mayor who said that his experiments in a new field were considered well done and of great value by those qualified to judge. The two Norman Scott paintings above are "Study in Planes" (left) and "Fisherman's Wharf".