J. E. Denham) last week enjoyed the opportunity of seeing a number of her paintings representing her work during the last year and a half in Pe-King. Mrs. Denham who is an Englishwoman, has spent most of her life in China and thoroughly appreciates the grace of its architect ture and the richness of its colouring. Mr. and Mrs. Denham left last Sunday by the P. & O, Swudan for an extended holiday in England.
The daughter of an artist and the wife of an architect, Mrs. Denham has always had an artistic background, but has had no definite lessons, working out an individual form of expression through her eagerness to interpret for others the charm of the country she knows so well. Living in one of the old temples near Peking, with every opportunity for an intimate knowledge of that city of fascination her work reflects the soul of the country as well as its outward express sion.
A city street, the brooding watch towers of the encircling wall, priests ascending the temple stairs or worshipping before the altar, the evanescent beauty of fresh spring blossoms against an age-old wall, the exquisite beauty of the Altar of Heaven, surcharged as well with its spiritual significance, a detail of a temple, a glowing vista through
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